PENNANT is an unstructured mesh physics mini-app designed for advanced architecture research. It contains mesh data structures and a few physics algorithms adapted from the LANL rad-hydro code FLAG, and gives a sample of the typical memory access patterns of FLAG.
cd src/gpu/pennant
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:${PWD} -w ${PWD} -u $UID:$GID gcr.io/gem5-test/gcn-gpu make
By default, the binary is built for gfx801 and is placed in src/gpu/pennant/build
pennant is a GPU application, which requires that gem5 is built with the GCN3_X86 architecture.
pennant has sample input files located at src/gpu/pennant/test. The following command shows how to run the sample noh
# Assuming gem5 and gem5-resources are in your working directory
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:${PWD} -w ${PWD} -u $UID:$GID gcr.io/gem5-test/gcn-gpu gem5/build/GCN3_X86/gem5.opt gem5/configs/example/apu_se.py -n3 --benchmark-root=gem5-resources/src/gpu/pennant/build -cpennant --options="gem5-resources/src/gpu/pennant/test/noh/noh.pnt"
The output gets placed in src/gpu/pennant/test/noh/, and the file noh.xy against the noh.xy.std file. Note: Only some tests have .xy.std files to compare against, and there may be slight differences due to floating-point rounding
http://dist.gem5.org/dist/v21-1/test-progs/pennant/pennant
The information from the original PENNANT README is included below.
PENNANT Description:
PENNANT is an unstructured mesh physics mini-app designed for advanced architecture research. It contains mesh data structures and a few physics algorithms adapted from the LANL rad-hydro code FLAG, and gives a sample of the typical memory access patterns of FLAG.
Further documentation can be found in the ‘doc’ directory of the PENNANT distribution.
Version Log:
0.6, February 2014: Replaced GMV mesh reader with internal mesh generators. Added QCS velocity difference routine to reflect a recent bugfix in FLAG. Increased size of big test problems. [ Master branch contained this change but CUDA branch does not: First MPI version. MPI capability is working and mostly optimized; MPI+OpenMP is working but needs optimization. ]
0.5, May 2013: Further optimizations.
0.4, January 2013: First open-source release. Fixed a bug in QCS and added some optimizations. Added Sedov and Leblanc test problems, and some new input keywords to support them.
0.3, July 2012: Added OpenMP pragmas and point chunk processing. Modified physics state arrays to be flat arrays instead of STL vectors.
0.2, June 2012: Added side chunk processing. Miscellaneous minor cleanup.
0.1, March 2012: Initial release, internal LANL only.