Benchmarking tools and techniques

Theory
• Comments regarding Throughput vs. Bandwidth
• Benchmarking Intel Systems and Understanding the Results is a very nice article authored by Cornell University Theory Center
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Benchmarks

Practice
• Storage and disk benchmarking tools
  see Tesseract Disk and Data Storage page
• Memory benchmarking tools
  • STREAM: Sustainable Memory Bandwidth in High Performance Computers
  • Cachebench ...is a program to empirically determine some parameters about an architectures memory subsystem.
  • MBW Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

• Computer benchmarking suites
  • Benchmaster suite of test tools (and other excellent material from rgb

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