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+This is the benchmark set for "Multilayer Multipurpose Caches for OpenMP Target Regions on FPGAs". 
+It contains the 7 benchmarks in different versions for the caching techniques tested as well as the measured timing data.
+Use with https://cs2-gitlab.cs.fau.de/orka/orkadistro/-/tags/MultilayerCacheReproduction to reproduce the results.