mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) (01/04/89)
Jack Worlton, "What is the Right Benchmark for Your System",
Supercomputing Review, Nov/Dec 1988, 16-23.
(8445 Camino Santa Fe, San Diego, CA 92121; 619-452-4242)
This is a clearly-written exposition, aimed more at scientific/technical
benchmarking. Offers many cautions, especially regarding single
benchmarks and peak performance numbers.
Includes nice hierarchy of workload characterization:
hardware demos put a few statements in a loop
kernels inner loops of real program (a la Livermore Fortran Kernels))
basic routines such as FFT or LINPACK
stripped applications small version of full application, as most CAD
vendors often supply as tests
full applications best, but ponderous
composite workloads combination of above
Thanx to Cleve Moler of Ardent for pointing this article out to me.
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