[R-sig-hpc] benchmark problems

[Max Kuhn]

Yes, those are being run. I wanted something from within R to
specifically evaluate that build. For example, R built with icc
instead of gcc. Also, I want to test a variety of computational
problems.

Thanks,

Max

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Steve Lianoglou
<mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Steve Lianoglou
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Max