steve@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Steve Mabbs) (05/31/90)
Can anyone provide pointers to benchmarking software for parallel systems? I've written a tool called 'ptrace' for the Sequent Symmetry which single-steps through processes (watching creation of children and also tracing them), reporting statistics on possible memory contention, etc. What I need are some programs which are considered to be psuedo- standard tests e.g. is there a parallel grep, tar or dhrystone for the Sequent? Thanks, Steve --------------- Stephen A. Mabbs, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Melbourne Phone: office (room 3.10): +61 3 344 6714 PARKVILLE VIC 3052 vlsi lab (room 3.16): +61 3 344 7436 AUSTRALIA Fax: +61 3 344 6678
peter@sigma21.oz (Peter Farrell) (06/05/90)
In article <9168@hubcap.clemson.edu>, steve@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Steve Mabbs) writes: > Can anyone provide pointers to benchmarking software for parallel > systems? I've written a tool called 'ptrace' for the Sequent Symmetry > which single-steps through processes (watching creation of children > and also tracing them), reporting statistics on possible memory contention, > etc. What I need are some programs which are considered to be psuedo- > standard tests e.g. is there a parallel grep, tar or dhrystone for the > Sequent? > You might consider a few of the standard packages, eg sh, make and dump. These are definitely parallelised. I think tar is also. If you have access to one of the FORTRAN compilers you could try some linpack runs. These have been parallelised using the fortran pre-processor, though I don't know how this would fit in with your ptrace fn. Several years ago, I did a quick hack on dhrystone to parallelise it but it was very crude and followed no standards. I hope this helps.