ADASuite is a heterogeneous benchmark suite intended to evaluate research on agile application-driven system design, which is a focus of the Center for Applications Driving Architectures (ADA).
The suite currently contains a RISC-V port of popular computer hardware and systems benchmark suites, including all of CortexSuite, MachSuite, MiBench2, SPLASH-3, and several PARSEC 2.1 benchmarks (Blackscholes, Fluidanimate, Freqmine, Streamcluster, and Swaptions). In addition to completing the PARSEC ports, we hope to expand the ADASuite to include more benchmarks in visual computing, natural language processing, virtual/augmented reality, and graph processing.
These ports were facilitated thanks to an ADA Center student hackathon. See the "README_portathon" file for more information.
To cross-compile the benchmarks, we used RISC-V GCC 7.2.0, which targets RISC-V privileged architecture RISC-V v1.10 (rv64imafdc default) in a Linux environment (kernel 4.15.0). To test the binaries in the target environment, we relied on emulation using RISC-V QEMU usermode.
We found SiFive's Freedom SDK a useful repository of mutually-compatible RISC-V tools all in one location.
Each sub-directory contains instructions (in the README) for building and running the benchmarks. All the benchmarks ported have options to be compiled natively or cross-compiled for RISC-V. We have set up CortexSuite, MachSuite, MiBench2, SPLASH-3 such that all their benchmarks can be built, run, and cleaned from their top directories.