Cluster Benchmarking Packages

Here are some links to benchmarks:

Benchmark Suites

• HPCC Challange Benchmark - uses seven tests to measure several different performance parameters.
• Beowulf Perforamnce Suite (BPS) - Example results are here.
• Cluster Monkey Benchmark Project - just started. It is based on the BPS.
• NASA Parallel Benchmarks - One of the most, if not the most, widely used set of benchmarks for clusters.
• Intel MPI Benchmarks - freely available.
• perfbase - a set of front end tools using a PostgreSQL database as backend, which together form a system for the management and analysis of the output of tests and experiments.
• SKaMPI - a suite of tests designed to measure the performance of MPI.

File Systems I/O

• GPFS vs. NFS evaluation
• EXT3, EXT3, Reiser, JFS, XFS benchmarks Part 1 and Part 2
• Cluster Monkey Series on Parallel File System Benchmarking
  • Benchmarking Parallel File Systems
  • A Benchmark for Parallel File Systems
  • Using the PIO Benchmark
• nfs-test is a program that tries a bunch of different rsizes, wsizes, protocols (tcp vs udp) and NFS versions to optimize performance
• IOZONE Filesystem Benchmark
• MPI-IO Test LANL's MPI-IO Test (The best test for MPI-IO codes)
• Livermore File System Tests A collection of tests from Lawrence Livermore for testing parallel IO file systems. This include IOR (a great test for parallel file systems) and a bunch of metadata tests

Individual Codes for Benchmarks These are codes that you can download (freely) and use for benchmarking. Some of them have benchmark results available and some don't.

• CNN The CNN benchmark (just kidding)