A colleague is having fun measuring the performance of various BSDs with this benchmark.
As usual with such software, the build instructions are atrocious. The code is also a bit shabby, with potential for buffer overflows. When contacted about this, upstream clearly doesn't care about the quality of their code. Hence the various patches to avoid building error strings without any error checks... Its only saving graces is that this is well known as a benchmark in the High Performance Computing community, and that apparently, one of its original author was a recipient for the Turing award recently. DESCR: HPL is a software package that solves a (random) dense linear system in double precision (64 bits) arithmetic on distributed-memory computers. It can thus be regarded as a portable as well as freely available implementation of the High Performance Computing Linpack Benchmark. Okay to import ?
hpl-2.3.tgz
Description: hpl-2.3.tgz
