Benchmarking in the Computer Systems Lab
Spring 2004

  1. Top500 List, Top500.org (main page)
    Press release summary
    Highlights of the 22nd TOP500 List
    HPCchallenge Benchmarks (Jack Dongarra)
    APEX Application Performance Characterization and Benchmarking (Erich Strohmaier)

  2. Benchmark tests - a listing
    Also - Benchmarking at NASA AMES (Sheila Faulkner)
    Resource links from NASA Ames

  3. 1000s -
    The LINPACK 1000x1000 benchmark program in single precision.
    This works on our workstations, and the SV1.
    Haven't tried it on the cluster yet.
    Some results: Cray SV1, Element, Compaq, Transformer

  4. HPL
    A Portable Implementation of the High Performance Linpack Benchmark for
    Distributed-Memory Computers.
    This program can be used for the Top500 tests.

    (Current status: I tried for several weeks to get this to compile on the SV1. It
    finally compiled, but then had a runtime error.
    I was coordinating with a researcher at U. Tenn, Knoxville)

  5. NAS -
    A benchmark test program has been developed for use by the NAS program
    at NASA Ames Research Center to aid in the evaluation of supercomputer performance.
    NAS documentation guide (pdf)
    See - Cray SV1 benchmarking guide (p. 24) for tips on NAS code optimizing

    Current status: This one works on the SV1 and our workstations.
    (Haven't tried it on the cluster yet)

  6. Two from NASA Ames:

  7. Vector Architectures and Optimization for the Cray SV1

  8. Cray SV1:

  9. Benchmarking guide for the SV1 (pdf)