CFP2006 (Floating Point Component of SPEC CPU2006):
| Benchmark | Language | Application Area | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 410.bwaves | Fortran | Fluid Dynamics | Computes 3D transonic transient laminar viscous flow. |
| 416.gamess | Fortran | Quantum Chemistry. | Gamess implements a wide range of quantum chemical computations. For the SPEC workload, self-consistent field calculations are performed using the Restricted Hartree Fock method, Restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock, and Multi-Configuration Self-Consistent Field |
| 433.milc | C | Physics / Quantum Chromodynamics | A gauge field generating program for lattice gauge theory programs with dynamical quarks. |
| 434.zeusmp | Fortran | Physics / CFD | ZEUS-MP is a computational fluid dynamics code developed at the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics (NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for the simulation of astrophysical phenomena. |
| 435.gromacs | C, Fortran |
Biochemistry / Molecular Dynamics | Molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate Newtonian equations of motion for hundreds to millions of particles. The test case simulates protein Lysozyme in a solution. |
| 436.cactusADM | C, Fortran |
Physics / General Relativity | Solves the Einstein evolution equations using a staggered-leapfrog numerical method |
| 437.leslie3d | Fortran | Fluid Dynamics | Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) using Large-Eddy Simulations with Linear-Eddy Model in 3D. Uses the MacCormack Predictor-Corrector time integration scheme. |
| 444.namd | C++ | Biology / Molecular Dynamics | Simulates large biomolecular systems. The test case has 92,224 atoms of apolipoprotein A-I. |
| 447.dealII | C++ | Finite Element Analysis | deal.II is a C++ program library targeted at adaptive finite elements and error estimation. The testcase solves a Helmholtz-type equation with non-constant coefficients. |
| 450.soplex | C++ | Linear Programming, Optimization | Solves a linear program using a simplex algorithm and sparse linear algebra. Test cases include railroad planning and military airlift models. |
| 453.povray | C++ | Image Ray-tracing | Image rendering. The testcase is a 1280x1024 anti-aliased image of a landscape with some abstract objects with textures using a Perlin noise function. |
| 454.calculix | C, Fortran |
Structural Mechanics | Finite element code for linear and nonlinear 3D structural applications. Uses the SPOOLES solver library. |
| 459.GemsFDTD | Fortran | Computational Electromagnetics | Solves the Maxwell equations in 3D using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. |
| 465.tonto | Fortran | Quantum Chemistry | An open source quantum chemistry package, using an object-oriented design in Fortran 95. The test case places a constraint on a molecular Hartree-Fock wavefunction calculation to better match experimental X-ray diffraction data. |
| 470.lbm | C | Fluid Dynamics | Implements the "Lattice-Boltzmann Method" to simulate incompressible fluids in 3D |
| 481.wrf | C, Fortran |
Weather | Weather modeling from scales of meters to thousands of kilometers. The test case is from a 30km area over 2 days. |
| 482.sphinx3 | C | Speech recognition | A widely-known speech recognition system from Carnegie Mellon University |