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From: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
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Subject: PD suite of benchmarks
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Date: 29 Nov 90 07:31:35 GMT
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Howdy.  Considering the high price of the SPEC suite, I was wondering if
anybody would be willing to get together some sort of PD suite of benchmarks.
I am thinking (NO! Really? 8-) along these lines:

-a ray trace (DKBTrace gets my vote here!)
-Large composite number factoring.  Say factor a 20 digit composite composed
 of 2 10 digit primes.
-Matrix stuff (say inversion, rref, etc).
-FFT
-Fractal (say a 1 megapixel render at 1000 iterations of the whole set)
-some of the more generic, useless benchmarks to please the mindless hordes
	-dhrystone,whetstone,savage,sieve,...
-quite a few others which I have been too stupid to mention

Suggestions welcome, and wanted.

		Thanks, Ralph

Ralph Seguin			gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu
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