Systems

The following systems have been benchmarked using our programs.

Sun E6000 (reference)

  • 16 UltraSparc II 250 MHz CPUs with 4 MB 3rd level cache
  • 16 GB RAM (16-way interleaved)
  • Operating System: Solaris 7
  • Compiler:
    • C: Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 2001/05/15
    • C++: Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 2001/05/15
  • Libraries:
    • BLAS/LAPACK : Sun WorkShop(TM) 6 Performance Library

Sun SunFire 6800

  • 24 UltraSparc III 900 MHz CPUs with 8 MB 2nd level cache
  • 96 GB RAM
  • Operating System: Solaris 9
  • Compiler:
    • C: Sun Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09
    • C++: Sun Forte Developer 7 C++ 5.4 Patch 111715-02 2002/09/18
  • Libraries:
    • BLAS/LAPACK : Sun Performance Library(TM) 7

Sun SunFire 15k

  • 72 UltraSparc III 900 MHz CPUs with 8 MB 2nd level cache
  • Operating System: Solaris 9
  • Compiler:
    • C: Sun Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09
    • C++: Sun Forte Developer 7 C++ 5.4 Patch 111715-02 2002/09/18
  • Libraries:
    • BLAS/LAPACK : Sun Performance Library(TM) 7

Compaq Alphaserver GS160

  • 16 EV67 730 MHz with 4 MB L2 cache
  • 32 GB RAM (16-way interleaved) (NUMA: 4 * 8 GB)
  • Storage: 50 GB striped, U-SCSI
  • Operating System: Compaq Tru64 Unix + TCS V5.1
  • Compiler:
    • C: Compaq C T6.4-208 / KAP C V4.1
    • C++: Compaq C++ T6.4-208 / KAP C++ V4.1 (???)
  • Libraries:
    • BLAS/LAPACK : CXML V5.0

Compaq ES45

  • 4 EV68 1001 MHz with 8 MB L2 cache
  • 8 GB RAM
  • Operating System: Compaq Tru64 Unix V5.1
  • Compiler:
    • C: Compaq C T6.4-208 / KAP C V4.1
    • C++: Compaq CXX 6.3.0 or 6.3.1 or 6.3.2
  • Libraries:
    • BLAS/LAPACK : CXML V5.0

HP 9000 Superdome

  • 64 CPUs PA8600 750 MHz, 1 MB 2nd Level Cache
  • 128 GB RAM
  • Operating System: HP-UX 11
  • Compiler
    • C: HP AnsiC Version B.11.01.21
    • C++: HP ANSI C++ Version A.03.31
  • Libraries
    • LAPACK: HP MLIB Version B.07.00

IBM eServer p690

  • 32 Power4 CPUs with 1.3 GHz
  • 256 GB RAM
  • Operating System: AIX5
  • Compiler
    • C: IBM VisualAge C Version 6
    • C++: IBM VisualAge C++ Version 6
  • Libraries
    • LAPACK: IBM ESSL Version 3.3.0.0

AMD Athlon MP 2000

  • 2x Athlon MP 2000 (1666 MHz), 133 MHz (DDR) FSB
  • Tyan Tiger MPX motherboard
  • 2 GB RAM PC266 (Registered)
  • Operating System: Linux 2.4.19
  • Compiler
    • C: GNU C Compiler v3.1
    • C++: GNU C++ Compiler v3.1
  • Libraries
    • LAPACK: modified netlib-CLAPACK