[R-sig-hpc] benchmark problems

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Max Kuhn <mxkuhn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> We've got some big shiny new SMP machines running Cent OS. I'm trying
> to convince our people that they are slow; about 2 fold slower than my
> 12 month old MacPro (running either Slackware or OS X).
>
> So... to show relative/absolute differences in execution time are
> there any well-known benchmarking problems that I should be using? I'd
> like to cover a lot of different bases (e.g. linear algebraic
> problems, memory intensive, CPU intensive, etc). We'd have to make the
> usual caveats about diferences in OS's but it would be good to have
> numbers.
>
> If people have good ideas, I wouldn't mind putting a small R package
> on R-Forge to make the tests easily accessible.

Does the LINPACK benchmark help here?

http://www.top500.org/project/linpack
http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/

Here's a MATLAB program that runs the benchmark:
http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~burkardt/m_src/linpack_bench/linpack_bench.html

Sorry if that's too obvious of a suggestion, but it's a start.

-steve

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