On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 02:15:56PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote: > Martin Siegert wrote: > >Hi, > > > >this is partially triggered by the mentioniong of the SPEC MPI2007 > >benchmark: what are people using as a benchmark suite for RFP purposes? > > Our own code.
Sigh. I thought I could avoid that response. Our own code (due to the no. of users who all believe that their code is the most important and therefore must be benchmarked) is so massive that any potential RFP respondent would have to work a year to run the code. Thus, we have to find a sensible cross section that is respresentative of the applications we care about. Since we will be purchasing several facilities with different performance characteristics (which are somewhat flexible depending on the price/performance ratio) we would like to setup a benchmark suite that covers the whole spectrum. > Anyone who does something different for serious RFP purposes is playing > with their lives (at least in our surroundings - civil servants are > heavily watched as far as fraud / or attempted fraud in these case go). I believe we can handle that. I did not say that we wouldn't run, test, modify/add applications for our own purposes. That's why we require open source. Since "own code" is the only answer that I appear to be getting, let me rephrase the question: which applications do you include as "your own code"? E.g., we will almost certainly include gromacs (which still leaves the question of the input parameters, etc.). Cheers, Martin -- Martin Siegert Head, [EMAIL PROTECTED] WestGrid Site Lead Academic Computing Services phone: (604) 291-4691 Simon Fraser University fax: (604) 291-4242 Burnaby, British Columbia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canada V5A 1S6 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
