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From: peter@sigma21.oz (Peter Farrell)
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Subject: Re: Parallel Benchmarking Programs
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Date: 4 Jun 90 17:18:08 GMT
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In article <9168@hubcap.clemson.edu>, steve@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Steve Mabbs) writes:
> Can anyone provide pointers to benchmarking software for parallel
> systems?  I've written a tool called 'ptrace' for the Sequent Symmetry
> which single-steps through processes (watching creation of children
> and also tracing them), reporting statistics on possible memory contention,
> etc.  What I need are some programs which are considered to be psuedo-
> standard tests  e.g. is there a parallel grep, tar or dhrystone for the
> Sequent?
> 

You might consider a few of the standard packages, eg sh, make and dump.
These are definitely parallelised. I think tar is also. If you have
access to one of the FORTRAN compilers you could try some linpack
runs. These have been parallelised using the fortran pre-processor,
though I don't know how this would fit in with your ptrace fn. 

Several years ago, I did a quick hack on dhrystone to parallelise it
but it was very crude and followed no standards.

I hope this helps.