MAELSTROM: First year benchmarking and results

This early benchmarking serves to establish a performance baseline for the MAELSTROM Applications in their early development stage. Benchmarks are designed to investigate how the runtime of the applications is distributed, making it possible to identify what first improvements should focus on, and which parts of the hardware systems are utilized to what degree. Another aspect that was surveyed is how well the applications in their early stage are able to make use of currently available hardware with regard to available compute throughput, parallelism, as well as energy efficiency.