From 9f6ed4b0d3452047f60dde81e2204c50ceece0d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xingfu Wu <38541094+wuxf99@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 10:33:27 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Create readme.md --- Benchmarks/rsbench-omp/readme.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Benchmarks/rsbench-omp/readme.md diff --git a/Benchmarks/rsbench-omp/readme.md b/Benchmarks/rsbench-omp/readme.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..72fd8c31 --- /dev/null +++ b/Benchmarks/rsbench-omp/readme.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This directory includes RSBench (https://github.com/ANL-CESAR/RSBench) which is a mini-app representing a key computational kernel of the Monte Carlo neutron transport algorithm. +Specifically, RSBench represents the multipole method of perfoming continuous energy macroscopic neutron cross section lookups. +The mulitpole method is a recently developed strategy for building microscopic cross section data "on-the-fly" that requires orders of magnitude +less memory storage as compared to traditional methods (e.g., those represented in XSBench). +RSBench serves as a useful performance stand-in for full neutron transport applications like OpenMC that support multipole cross section representations. + +We use the ytopt autotuning framework to autotune the benchmark RSBench.