Analysis of a physical modeling benchmark set

The goal of this work was to produce architecture data for a benchmark set of physical modeling applications. The applications were evaluated by a simulator on virtual hardware. This project used the SimpleScalar Simulator from the University of Wisconsin. I ran the simulation of the applications and evaluated the results of the simulation of the applications. The applications were executed on the simulator with various levels of detail, application complexity. Specifically, I studied branch prediction, cache, memory footprint, and instruction profile for the applications. The memory usage and program complexity was examined by tracing the computations of the simulations through the architecture. Ideally, others will find the development and analysis of this benchmark set beneficial