Miniapps serve as test beds for prototyping and evaluating new algorithms, data structures, and programming models before incorporating such changes into larger applications. For the miniapp to accurately predict how a prototyped change would affect a larger application it is necessary that the miniapp be shown to serve as a proxy for that larger application. Although many benchmarks claim to proxy the performance for a set of large applications, little work has explored what criteria must be

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... t for a benchmark to serve as a proxy for examining programmability. In this poster we describe criteria that can be used to establish that a miniapp serves as a performance and programmability proxy.