ENGLISH

The science of computer benchmarking

By Roger W. Hockney

Book information

Publisher
Soc for Industrial & Applied Math
Year
1996
ISBN
9780898713633, 0898713633
LCC
QA76.9.E94 H63 1996
Open Library ID
OL809675M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1305708 bytes)
Series
Software, Environments, Tools
Pages
144\144
Time added
2009-08-06 05:14:26

Description

This book provides an introduction to computer benchmarking. Hockney includes material concerned with the definition of performance parameters and metrics and defines a set of suitable metrics with which to measure performance and units with which to express them. He also presents new ideas resulting from the application of dimensional analysis to the field of computer benchmarking. This results in the definition of a dimensionless universal scaling diagram that completely describes the scaling properties of a class of computer benchmarks on a single diagram, for all problem sizes and all computers describable by a defined set of hardware parameters. The principle of computational similarity, which states the requirements for two computer programs to have the same optimum self-speedup, optimum number of processors, and scaling, is also described.

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