iBench is a suite of contentious microbenchmarks. Each microbenchmark targets a different shared resource in a multi-core chip (processing cores, cache capacity, main memory bandwidth) and has tunable intensity. iBench was originally written to evaluate the Paragon cluster scheduler, but has since been considerably altered. You can find more details about iBench in our IISWC paper (PDF).
iBench is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License as published by the Open Source Initiative, revised version.
iBench was originally written by Christina Delimitrou at Stanford University, and per Stanford University policy, the copyright of this original code remains with the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University.
If you use this software in your work, we request that you reference the iBench paper ("iBench: Quantifying Interference for Datacenter Applications", Delimitrou and Kozyrakis, IISWC, September 2013), and that you send us a citation of your work.