Towards a benchmark suite for high-performance Modelica compilers

Abstract

This Work-In-Progress paper introduces HiPerMod, a new Modelica benchmark suite for large-scale models. The main characteristic of this benchmark suite is that for each model the Modelica implementation is compared with hand-optimized C++ code. The purpose of HiPerMod is to both assess the current performance gap in existing Modelica translators, as well as to explore how to produce the most optimized code for such models, a task that will later be automated in next generation Modelica compilers. In this paper the design choices of HiPerMod are introduced, and preliminary results on a thermal model for integrated circuits are presented.