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}}</ref> For the first time in computer history software would have to be rewritten in order to take advantage of the parallel nature of those processors, which means that existing programs could not be used effectively to test and develop those new types of computer systems. At that time parallel software only existed in very specialized areas. However, before chip-multiprocessors becomebecame commonly available software developers wouldwere not be willing to [[Parallelization|rewrite]] any mainstream programs, which means hardware manufacturers did not have access to any programs for test and development purposes that represented the expected real-world program behavior accurately. This posed a hen-and-egg problem that motivated a new type of benchmark suite with parallel programs that could take full advantage of chip-multiprocessors.

PARSEC was created to break this circular dependency. It was designed to fulfill the following five objectives:

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# The suite supports research

Traditional benchmarks that were publicly available before PARSEC were generally limited in their scope of included application domains or typically only available in an unparallelized, serial version. Parallel programs were only prevalent in the ___domain of [[High-Performance Computing]] and on a much smaller scale in business environments. [[multi-core processor|Chip-multiprocessors]] however were expected to be heavily used in all areas of computing such as with parallelized consumer applications.

== Workloads ==