The science of computer benchmarking / Roger W. Hockney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hockney, Roger W.

Contributor:

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Series:

Software, environments, tools ; 2.

Software, environments, tools

Software, environments, tools ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic digital computers--Evaluation.

Electronic digital computers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 129 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, 3600 Market Street, Floor 6, Philadelphia, PA 19104), 1996.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Summary:

This book provides an introduction to computer benchmarking. Hockney includes material concerned with the definition of performance parameters and metrics and defines a set of suitable metrics with which to measure performance and units with which to express them. He also presents new ideas resulting from the application of dimensional analysis to the field of computer benchmarking. This results in the definition of a dimensionless universal scaling diagram that completely describes the scaling properties of a class of computer benchmarks on a single diagram, for all problem sizes and all computers describable by a defined set of hardware parameters.

Contents:

The parkbench committee

The parkbench report

Other benchmarking activities

Usefulness of benchmarking

Methodology:

Objectives

Units and symbols

Time measurement

Floating-point operation count

Performance metrics

What's wrong with speedup?

Example of the LPMI benchmark

LPM3 benchmark

Low-level parameters and benchmarks:

The measurement of time

Peak, realised and sustained performance

The (r, n) parameters

RFNI arithmetic benchmark

COMMS communication benchmarks

POLY or balance benchmarks

SYNCH1 synchronisation benchmark

Summary of benchmarks

Computational similarity and scaling:

Basic facts of parallel life

Introducing the DUSD method

Computational similarity

Application to the genesis FFT1 benchmark

Presentation of results:

Xnetib

PDS: performance database server

PDS implementation

GBIS: interactive graphical interface

The Southampton GBIS.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-122) and index.

Title from title screen, viewed 12/30/2010.

ISBN:

0-89871-966-6

Publisher Number:

SE02 SIAM