[olug] OT-CPU Benchmarks

[Dave Thacker]

On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:46 pm, Daniel Linder wrote:
> dthacker9 at cox.net said:
> > I've been asked to get the specs for a Solaris server that we are looking
> > at replacing.  I'm looking for a benchmark that would allow me to make a
> > meaningful comparison of the processing power of hte SPARC chips in this
> > 5 year old server vs today's Intel/AMD/PPC chips.  Has anyone found a
> > benchmark that they would consider accurate for this type of comparison?
>
> Doing what?

A large scale forecasting/optimization task in batch mode.
>
> As you have probably heard... "The best benchmark is the application you
> are going to run on it."

Not possible, and that's a whole 'nother rant....
>

> If your app is nearly 100% pure math, you could look at some of the LinPak
> related math tests.  I think there is an informal test done by Wolfram
> using their MathMatica (think electronic graph paper)...
>
> If your app is heavy on the database side and/or disk IO, you can look to
> see what programs like Bonnie or IOZone report.  Maybe even find the
> ReiserFS benchmarking tools and try them.

Nope, CPU is the bottleneck, and I want to compare what today's Intel/AMD 
stuff can do versus 5 year old SPARC's
>
> Finally, if your app is doing network stuff, you could setup a Warez site
> on the server and expose them to the Internet...THAT would give you a
> boatload of traffic to look at! :)

Naw, I really like my job. 
>

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Dave Thacker
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