From: Brian Baltz <bbaltz@ahpcc.unm.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Benchmark for Top500
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:58:39 -0600
Organization: Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center
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Hello,

Can someone tell me what benchmark used in the Top500 list of
supercomputers (www.top500.org)? I downloaded SLbench from Netlib and
already have all the necessary ScaLAPACK components installed.

If SLbench is acceptable (it uses a driver called xdlutime), how are the
results represented? The Top500 list has the ASCI Red machine at Sandia
NL with a performance of 2121.3 MFLOP/S for the largest possible problem
on that machine. Is this number normalized by the number of processors
used (9472)?

Thanks for any help.
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Brian Baltz                                         
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Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center   
Phone: (505) 277-8420      Email: bbaltz@arc.unm.edu