Should we perhaps make a benchmark page on WineHQ? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:52:11 +0200 From: Thomas Elger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nice benchmark results Hi Ove! I am not sure if you are the right person to write to (even though I have written you once before regarding screenshots). I do however hope that you will find these results interesting since there appears to be a lack of good WINE benchmarks. I have a computer program GAUSS for Windows NT/95, Version 3.2.32. Aptech does provide a Linux version of the program, but they charge for a completely new license. It is a highly advanced statitistical package used by many econometricians and mathematical statisticians. I was very pleased to find that the NT version works FLAWLESSLY on Linux using WINE. I found a benchmark program for the program on "http://www.steinhaus-net.de/science/gaussst.html". On the site, there is an extensive list of test results using various operating systems and computers. The author states in the benchmark program that it belongs to the public domain and can be used freely. My test results were as follows (On an Intel PII 400, 128n Mb RAM, Mandrake Linux 6.0 using the WINE distributed with Corel Photo paint (since it is nicely preconfigured with printing etc)): !!! GAUSS - Benchmarkprogram !!! ================================ 300x300 normal distributed random matrix^1000____ : 1.837 sec. Eigenval. of a normal distr. 200x200 randommatrix : 2.777 sec. Inverse of a 500x500 uniform distr. random matrix : 6.073 sec. 500000 values sorted ascending___________________ : 2.113 sec. 800x800 Toeplitzmatrix___________________________ : 0.333 sec. Cholesky decomposition of a 500x500-matrix_______ : 0.623 sec. 600x600 correlation matrix_______________________ : 6.963 sec. 500x500 cross-product matrix_____________________ : 3.887 sec. FFT over 100000 values___________________________ : 0.887 sec. Gaussian error function over a 500x500 matrix____ : 0.643 sec. Gamma function over a 500x500 matrix_____________ : 0.410 sec. Linear regression over a 500x500 matrix__________ : 5.257 sec. Overall Performance______________________________ : 31.803 sec. These results are truly amazing. Running Gauss under WINE on Linux is just as fast as running gauss natively under NT 4.0 (or faster) !!! On the site referred above, a Dell Pentium II computer with 128 Mb RAM gets an overall performance of 32.484. A screenshot of Gauss running the benchmark is available on: http://www.nek.lu.se/nektel/bench.jpg I hope that you found this information interesting. Sincerely, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Elger + 46 (0)46 2227919 (Office) Dept. of Economics + 46 (0)46 293328 (Home) Lund University + 46 (0)708 293329 (Mobile) SE-220 07 LUND + 46 (0)46 2224118 (fax) SWEDEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nek.lu.se/nektel
