Performance characterization of data mining benchmarks
Vineeth Mekkat, Ragavendra Natarajan, Wei‐Chung Hsu, Antonia Zhai · 2010
Explosive growth in the availability of various kinds of data in both commercial and scientific domains have resulted in an unprecedented need to develop novel data-driven, knowledge discovery techniques. Data mining is one such data-centric application. It consists of methods to discover interesting, nontrivial, and useful patterns hidden within massive amounts of data. Researchers from both academia and industry have recognized that the challenges of data mining applications will help shape the future of multi-core processor and parallelizing compiler designs. However, relatively little has been done to understand the performance characteristics of these applications on modern multi-core processors.