In the next article we will discuss code portability issues and PVM debugging strategies. This month we present a suite of the most commonly encountered benchmarks in high performance computing. Results are normalized against a Cray Y-MP and Cray C90. It is specifically targeted for evaluating supercomputer performance. This parallel benchmark was created by a group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Benchmarks seem to be useful first-step estimations.
HINT reveals memory bandwidth and memory regimes, scales with memory size and increasing numbers of processors, allowing it to compare computing from PCs to the largest supercomputers.