OUTLINE

• Processor Performance Overview

  • Single-processor performance, Performance Metrics

• SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation)

  • SPEC 95 and SPEC CPU 2000

• Computational Chemistry Benchmark (serial) - SPECfp ?

  • Matrix and application “kernels”
  • Application packages (GAMESS-UK, DL_POLY)
  • Comparison involves 200+ computers (vector supercomputers, workstations, PCs and MPP nodes)

• Now extended to include “RATE” benchmarks

  • URLs: Powerpoint presentation and Paper:
    http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/disco/hw-perf.shtml
    

• Benchmarking of Parallel Commodity Systems

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