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Collaborative competitions have gained popularity in the scientific and technological fields. These competitions involve defining tasks, selecting evaluation scores, and devising result verification methods. In the standard scenario,…

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Efficient on-device neural network (NN) inference offers predictable latency, improved privacy and reliability, and lower operating costs for vendors than cloud-based inference. This has sparked recent development of microcontroller-scale…

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The prospects of quantum computing have driven efforts to realize fully functional quantum processing units (QPUs). Recent success in developing proof-of-principle QPUs has prompted the question of how to integrate these emerging processors…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Keith A. Britt , Travis S. Humble

The increasing attention on deep learning has tremendously spurred the design of intelligence processing hardware. The variety of emerging intelligence processors requires standard benchmarks for fair comparison and system optimization (in…

In the recent years it can be observed increasing popularity of parallel processing using multi-core processors, local clusters, GPU and others. Moreover, currently one of the main requirements the IT users is the reduction of maintaining…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Łukasz P. Olech , Jan Kwiatkowski

In order to compare and benchmark the mathematical software, the performance profiles have been introduced [1]. However, it has been proved that the algorithm is not flawless. The main issue with the performance profile is that it may rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Rasoul Hekmati , Hanieh Mirhajianmoghadam

Edge computing has emerged as a pivotal technology, offering significant advantages such as low latency, enhanced data security, and reduced reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. These benefits are crucial for applications requiring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tomasz Szydlo , Viacheslav Horbanov , Devki Nandan Jha , Shashikant Ilager , Aleksander Slominski , Rajiv Ranjan

We present a graph processing benchmark suite with the goal of helping to standardize graph processing evaluations. Fewer differences between graph processing evaluations will make it easier to compare different research efforts and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Scott Beamer , Krste Asanović , David Patterson

Memory simulators are used to estimate application performance on advanced memory systems, yet they may exhibit significant discrepancies compared to real hardware. This paper investigates two key questions: (1) what causes these…

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Attacks like Spectre abuse speculative execution, one of the key performance optimizations of modern CPUs. Recently, several testing tools have emerged to automatically detect speculative leaks in commercial (black-box) CPUs. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Oleksii Oleksenko , Marco Guarnieri , Boris Köpf , Mark Silberstein

Benchmarking functionalities in current commercial process mining tools allow organizations to contextualize their process performance through high-level performance indicators, such as completion rate or throughput time. However, they do…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Luka Abb , Majid Rafiei , Timotheus Kampik , Jana-Rebecca Rehse

Computational models in chemistry rely on a number of approximations. The effect of such approximations on observables derived from them is often unpredictable. Therefore, it is challenging to quantify the uncertainty of a computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Gregor N. Simm , Jonny Proppe , Markus Reiher

Benchmarking is how the performance of a computing system is determined. Surprisingly, even for classical computers this is not a straightforward process. One must choose the appropriate benchmark and metrics to extract meaningful results.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Salonik Resch , Ulya R. Karpuzcu

This paper presents a comprehensive review of univariate process capability indices (PCIs), which are critical metrics for assessing how effectively a manufacturing process satisfies customer specifications based on a single quality…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-20 Fei Jiang , Lei Yang

In computational biology and other sciences, researchers are frequently faced with a choice between several computational methods for performing data analyses. Benchmarking studies aim to rigorously compare the performance of different…

Comparative evaluation of several systems is a recurrent task in researching. It is a key step before deciding which system to use for our work, or, once our research has been conducted, to demonstrate the potential of the resulting model.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sergio Gómez González , Miguel Domingo , Francisco Casacuberta

A benchmark of 25 nonlinear optimization problems with domain-induced discontinuity is proposed to support the performance evaluation of global optimization algorithms under feasibility-scarce and structurally discontinuous landscapes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Peicong Cheng , Makoto Yamashita

Comparative evaluation lies at the heart of science, and determining the accuracy of a computational method is crucial for evaluating its potential as well as for guiding future efforts. However, metrics that are typically used have…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-07-10 Kiwon Um , Xiangyu Hu , Bing Wang , Nils Thuerey

In the realm of computer systems, efficient utilisation of the CPU (Central Processing Unit) has always been a paramount concern. Researchers and engineers have long sought ways to optimise process execution on the CPU, leading to the…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Supriya Manna , Krishna Siva Prasad Mudigonda

As high-performance computing (HPC) systems rapidly evolve, with increasing on-node parallelism and widespread use of accelerators, understanding how the code maps to hardware is essential for reaching optimal performance. Benchmarks are…

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