Re: linpack benchmark

2012-11-04 Thread Dr Beco
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > That is incorrect. HPL exercises only the CPU/memory subsystem (mostly > CPU). It doesn't test interconnect performance. The program "solves a > dense system of linear equations" and that's it. It is a "show off" > test which demonstrates

Re: linpack benchmark

2012-11-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/4/2012 10:42 AM, Dr Beco wrote: > With so many processors out there, each one installed in a different > system with different amount of RAM, kinds of disks (normal, SSD, > flash, etc.), a benchmark like linpack came to fill a gap when > comparing systems (not only processors). That is inco

Re: linpack benchmark

2012-11-04 Thread Dr Beco
Hi, After running linpack from hpcc debian package, I find some of my computers to have a very different FLOPS as the one related to the old code cited before. Also, without any hpccinf.txt it is still possible to gather information about your computer. It will be saved in a file named hpccoutf.t