The only especially meaningful benchmark is the application you want to run on the cluster. Run it with a small number of nodes and scale up to all your nodes.
If you want to see how you stack up against arbitrary lists like the top500, hpl is nice. On 9/16/06, Otter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am fairly new to cluster computing. I have constructed a cluster and > would like to > benchmark it. I know the term benchmark is broad, but I do not know if > there are > standards for cluster computing such as PCMark, 3DMark etc. I am working > with a group, so > if my question seems to lack details it is because I do not know all of > the details. At > the moment I just know we will need to generate some benchmarks as we > experiment with the > cluster. > > I noticed a link to "A Portable Implementation of the High-Performance > Linpack Benchmark > for Distributed-Memory Computers" on the OSCAR website ( > http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/ > <https://webmail.latech.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netlib.org%2Fbenchmark%2Fhpl%2F> > ), but before I blindly selected a package I would > like to ask for input from real cluster users. Are there certain > statistics that matter > most? Is there a preferred benchmarking package? Is there a preferred > way to benchmark a > cluster? I do understand that certain statistics are more meaningful > based on what type > of cluster computing you are doing, but I would rather gather to many > statistics rather > then to few. And I want my results to be as professional as possible. > > Thank you for any input, > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
