Low-level benchmarking: performance profiles
Roger W. Hockney, Vladimir Getov · 2002
The aim of this paper is to advance the presentation of low-level benchmarking results in the form of performance profiles, which present concisely on one or two pages the single- or multi-processor performance results. A profile consists of measured and derived performance parameters which characterise the performance of parallel computers. In order to achieve a more systematic approach to low-level benchmarking methodology, we also introduce the concept of the benchmarking frame. Several sets of low-level benchmarking results from current RISC platforms including DEC Alpha, SGI Onyx, and SUN Ultra-2 are shown to prove the validity of our approach. 1. Introduction The revolution in design of computer microprocessors brought by RISC architecture has reached its second stage. High performance workstations, mainly designed towards demanding calculation-intensive applications, including image and distributed processing of large amounts of data, have become more affordable than ever. The...