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From: Tom Deakin <tom.deakin@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:52:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add STREAM reference to README

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 GPU-STREAM
 ==========
 
+Measure memory transfer rates to/from global device memory on GPUs.
+This benchmark is similar in spirit, and based on, the STREAM benchmark [1] for CPUs.
+
+Unlike other GPU memory bandwidth benchmarks this does *not* include the PCIe transfer time.
+
+
+[1]: McCalpin, John D., 1995: "Memory Bandwidth and Machine Balance in Current High Performance Computers", IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Newsletter, December 1995.