What is OBPMark?OBPMark (On-Board Processing Benchmarks) is a...

What is OBPMark?

OBPMark (On-Board Processing Benchmarks) is a set of computational performance benchmarks developed specifically for spacecraft on-board data processing applications, such as: image and radar processing, data and image compressions, signal processing and machine learning.

The development of OBPMark was driven by the lack of openly available and representative benchmarks for space applications.

OBPMark consists of three main components:

1. A technical note describing the benchmarks, their implementation and result reporting.
2. Reference implementations in C (sequential) and standard parallelisation schemes, such as OpenMP, OpenCL and CUDA.
3. A list of known published performance benchmark results.

OBPMark has been developed in cooperation by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The OBPMark definition and implementation has been made available partially through funding from the ESA “General Studies Programme (GSP)”.

OBPMark is openly available, and contributions from the community are warmly welcome.