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From: earl@mips.COM (Earl Killian)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bar Wars again (benchmarking)
Message-ID: <4263@wright.mips.COM>
Date: 30 Sep 88 16:50:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: grenley@nsc.nsc.com's message of 29 Sep 88 20:08:54 GMT

In article <6684@nsc.nsc.com> grenley@nsc.nsc.com (George Grenley) writes:

   From: grenley@nsc.nsc.com (George Grenley)
   Date: 29 Sep 88 20:08:54 GMT

   Welcome Benchmark Fans!
   The wheel's come full circle here at National, and I am again in
   the 32 bit micro benchmarking business.  Many moons ago I proposed
   on this net a public, head to head comparison of the various 32 bit
   chips, preferably "offsite" at a local tavern.  The idea met with
   some favorable response; let's see if the world is still
   interested.

   Each prospective participant should bring his iron, and the usual
   benchmark code.  Be prepared to have ALL code inspected (including
   library sources) by the referees.  We will compile and run the
   code, and all results will be published, and placed in the public
   domain.  We will also verify clock rates, etc.

The logistics of this are a problem.  Why don't you produce a
performance brief along the lines of the MIPS Performance Brief and
then post it, as MIPS has done.

To start with, what are your results on the following public-domain
benchmarks?

livermore fortran kernels, harmonic, geometric,
	and arithmetic mean, sp and dp

linpack 100x100, fortran and coded blas, sp and dp

1000x1000, sp and dp

spice2g6, bipole, digsr, and comparator inputs (as posted on comp.arch
	last year)

Hmm, as usual, no decent public-domain integer benchmarks come to
mind.  MIPS uses diff, grep, yacc, nroff, espresso, and timberwolf as
integer benchmarks given suitable inputs, but these aren't
public-domain, and aren't generally agreed upon.
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