HPC Challenge Benchmark
| Original author(s) | Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee |
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| Stable release | 1.3.1
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| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Website | http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc/ |
The HPC Challenge Benchmark is a set of benchmarks targeting to test multiple attributes that can contribute substantially to the real-world performance of HPC systems, co-sponsored by the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems program, the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation[1].
It consists at this time of 7 benchmarks: HPL, STREAM, RandomAccess, PTRANS, FFTE, DGEMM and b_eff Latency/Bandwidth. HPL is the LINPACK TPP (Toward Peak Performance) benchmark. The test stresses the floating point performance of a system. STREAM is a benchmark that measures sustainable memory bandwidth. RandomAccess measures the rate of random updates of memory. PTRANS measures the rate of transfer for larges arrays of data from multiprocessor's memory. Latency/Bandwidth measures latency and bandwidth of communication patterns of increasing complexity between as many nodes as is time-wise feasible[2].
References
- ^ "Cray X1 Supercomputer Has Highest Reported Scores on Government-Sponsored HPC Challenge Benchmark Tests". 2004-06-14. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ "HPCC FAQ". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
External links
- HPC Challenge Benchmark (official website)
- HPC Challenge Awards Competition