benchmark problems
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Max Kuhn <mxkuhn at gmail.com> wrote:
Everyone, We've got some big shiny new SMP machines running Cent OS. I'm trying to convince our people that they are slow; about 2 fold slower than my 12 month old MacPro (running either Slackware or OS X). So... to show relative/absolute differences in execution time are there any well-known benchmarking problems that I should be using? I'd like to cover a lot of different bases (e.g. linear algebraic problems, memory intensive, CPU intensive, etc). We'd have to make the usual caveats about diferences in OS's but it would be good to have numbers. If people have good ideas, I wouldn't mind putting a small R package on R-Forge to make the tests easily accessible.
Does the LINPACK benchmark help here? http://www.top500.org/project/linpack http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/ Here's a MATLAB program that runs the benchmark: http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~burkardt/m_src/linpack_bench/linpack_bench.html Sorry if that's too obvious of a suggestion, but it's a start. -steve
Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact