Many of us use powerful desktop PCs, and that means, one has to regularly keep up with its performance. It’s even worse when you’ve overclocked your computer because that’s when things get extremely ...

The benchmark is based on Linpack, a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on digital computers that was written in Fortran by computer scientists Jack Dongarra, Jim Bunch, Cleve ...

It used to be simple: Multiply the microprocessor’s clock rate by four, and you could measure a computer’s computational power in megaFLOPS (millions of floating point operations per second) or ...

I’ve had this paper on my desk to read for nearly a year now. It’s from Oct 2008, and it’s called “Benchmarking Amazon EC2 for High Performance Scientific Computing” by Edward Walker. It’s an ...

We all know about the Top 500 supercomputing benchmark, which measures raw floating point performance. But over the several years there has been talk that this no longer represents real-world ...