> [...]
>
> I did have a look at getting more hardware information to add to the output 
> reports. With this library:
>
> https://github.com/oshi/oshi <https://github.com/oshi/oshi>
>
> I added a command to output system information about the processor:
>
> java -jar target/rng-utils.jar system
> Java: 1.8.0_191 OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 25.191-b12
> OS: GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (Xenial Xerus) build 4.4.0-145-generic (Arch 
> amd64)
> Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1680 v3 @ 3.20GHz (1 physical CPU, 8 
> physical CPU core(s), 16 logical CPU(s))
> Memory: 31.3 GiB
>
> java -jar target/rng-utils.jar system
> Java: 1.8.0_131 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.131-b11
> OS: Apple macOS 10.14.3 (Mojave) build 18D109 (Arch x86_64)
> Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz (1 physical CPU, 4 
> physical CPU core(s), 8 logical CPU(s))
> Memory: 16 GiB
>
> It works nicely on the two machines I usually work on. The API can access a 
> lot more information but this seems to be the essentials. It may be useful to 
> add this info to all the performance/benchmarking reports in the user manual.
>
> But I am not sure how relevant the processor and clock speed are. The JVM is 
> the machine and the hardware to a certain extent is not relevant. I’ve 
> noticed differences when benchmarking between the two machines for speed but 
> that may be due to the use of Hotspot verses OpenJDK rather than the hardware.
>
> For the stress test the processor speed is not relevant (output of an RNG 
> should be the same) unless studying the run times for the test.
>
> Thoughts?

I'd tend to think that the hardware info is not necessary.
Info about the JVM and system was already output.

Regards,
Gilles

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