The NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) are a small set of programs designed to help evaluate the performance of parallel supercomputers. The benchmarks, which are derived from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications, consist of five kernels and three pseudo-applications. The NPB come in several flavors. NAS solicits performance results for each from all sources.License: OSI ApprovedChanges:
Additional tests were added to stress larger parallel machines. Additional classes of problems have been added to existing benchmarks. Additional statistics are calculated from tests. Bugs including race conditions and uninitialized variables were fixied. The hyperplane version of LU (LU-HP) is no longer included in the distribution.