Evaluating Supercomputers
Strategies for Exploiting, Evaluating and Benchmarking Computers with Advanced Architectures
Published on 31. May 1990
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-412-37860-7 (ISBN)
Description
The papers in this book, derived from the proceedings of the Unicom Applied Information Technology Reports, describe a wide range of standard benchmarks and provide a spectrum of views on evaluative techniques in general and the problems that face users of the new generation of supercomputers.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-37860-7 (9780412378607)
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Content
The Linpack benchmark - an explanation, J. Dongarra; the expanding role of mini-supercomputers, D J Evans; never mind the flops, C. Jesshope; performance evaluation on a hierarchical shared memory machine, P. Kitchin and G. O'Neil; benchmarking performance over a life cycle the ULCC FORTRAN benchmark, C. Lazou; benchmarking and evaluation of portable numerical software, P. Mayes; benchmarking supercomputers with industrial codes, G. Meurant; performance evaluation for supernum systems, H. Mierendorff and U. Trottenberg; experience of benchmarking and the Intel IPSC family of concurrent processors, D. Moody; performance estimation in a highly parallel environment, D. Parkinson; evaluating software parallelism in supercomputers, R.H. Perrott; benchmarking case studies over a range of cray products, A. Ray and J. Gillespie; supercomputers for information centre and database applications, J. D. Spiers; is it really possible to benchmark a supercomputer - a graded approach to performance measurement, A. Van der Steen; who needs supercomputers and why?, F. Wray; the performance of vector and parallel computers for large scale optimization, S. Zenios; Whither Whetstone? the synthetic benchmark after 15 years, H. J. Curnow; performance analysis and measurement on transputer arrays, D. J. Pritchard.