A detailed look at some popular benchmarks

Reduced instruction set computers

David A. Patterson · Communications of the ACM · 1985 · 451 citations · Full text

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +13

Distribution of mathematical software via electronic mail

Jack Dongarra, Eric H. Grosse · Communications of the ACM · 1987 · 259 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Distributed Systems +7

An analysis of the computational and parallel complexity of the Livermore Loops

John Feo · Parallel Computing · 1988 · 74 citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +12

The SPEC benchmarks

Kaivalya M. Dixit · Parallel Computing · 1991 · 55 citations

On the use of benchmarks for measuring system performance

Henry M. Levy, Douglas W. Clark · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 1982 · 23 citations · Full text

Business, Computer Science, Computer Systems +12