Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking Projects at CSRD

Perfect Benchmarks

A suite of scientific and engineering programs that are representative of applications run on high-performance computers has been collected in a joint effort of several US research and development orgainizations. The codes are being used for benchmarking computer systems as well as for the purpose of evaluating new concepts and developments in high-performance computing.

The Perfect Benchmarks codes are available free of charge for non-commercial use. Signing of a licence agreement is necessary.

Official reports of Perfect benchmarking results can be found in CSRD technical reports "Perfect Report 1", "Perfect Report2", and addenda. They can be ordered in hardcopy from librarian@csrd.uiuc.edu.

If you are iterested in receiving the code please read the infoletter, contact form, and the licence agreement. Further information is available via ftp from ftp.csrd.uiuc.edu:/pub/CSRD_Software/Perfect/version1. Questions can be directed to perfect-benchmarks@csrd.uiuc.edu.

SPEC High Performance Group

In Spring 1994 the Perfect Benchmarking effort and the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation have joined efforts and formed the new SPEC High Performance Group. A new suite a representative applications for high-performance machines is being collected, a first version of which was released at the Supercomputing 95 conference in San Diego, California.

Home page of the SPEC High-Performance Group

The following information is for SPEC/HPG internal use only:

Candidate Codes:

Directory Structure and Benchmarking Scripts

Sample Reporting Page format

HPG Run Rules (November 1 95)

HPG Run Rules (Draft August 95)