[R-sig-hpc] looking for available R benchmarks

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 7 April 2010 at 13:25, Stefan Theussl wrote:
| On 04/07/2010 04:58 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 6 April 2010 at 22:45, xiaoming gu wrote:
| > | Hi, all. I'm a stranger in R and wondering whether there are some available
| > | standard benchmarks for R. I would like to know some workloads written in R
| > | and designed for the purpose similar to SPEC CPU2006. And each workload has
| > | several different input levels. Thanks very much.
| >
| > I am not aware of anything but this would be nice to have.  Maybe someone
| > should volunteer and start a new HPC Benchmarks project on R-Forge?
| >    
| Doesn't simply calling (and timing) "make check" after building R from 
| sources provide a good estimate for general performance of R on a 
| particular machine? However this approach might not be very flexible in 
| terms of the examples used.

Yes, but there is nothing "HPC" in there, or in the standard R benchmark by
Simon that Sean pointed too. IMHO we could do with specific HPC benchmarks in
order to compare the various approaches.  

Dirk

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