> I am having trouble finding software in general for a cluster. in > particular, benchmarking software... > > basically, what I am looking for is a benchmark program i can run on my > cluster, but also run on one of my single machines, example my athlon xp > 1700 to see how they compare. I would actually like to know how much power > i actually have here with my 8 x p166's. > > any other software is good too, if you know of any.
It is easy to predict that, for floating point operations, your Athlon XP 1700 will beat your 8xp166 cluster rather easily, I estimate by a factor os 2. For a benchmark, try Linpack, it is pretty much the universal code for this sort of thing, and it includes a parallelization benchmark. The code is available and you can learn everything about it here: http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/faq-linpack.html Cheers, ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jorge L. deLyra, Associate Professor of Physics The University of Sao Paulo, IFUSP-DFMA For more information: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
