Is there a specific version of the test suite that should be used, to compare against the published results? Adrian On 20 December 2011 17:18, Matthew Tippett <matthew_at_phoronix.com> wrote: > For such a system, the greatest immediate value would be to attempt to > reproduce the benchmarks in question. > > Install PTS from www.phoronix-test-suite.com or freshports.org. > > Run the benchmark against those used in the article > > phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 > > You will be asked to push the comparison up to openbenchmarking at the end. > > Matthew > > > On 12/20/2011 01:39 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: >> >> On 12/20/11 21:20, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: >>> >>> Interestingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on >>> criticising Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an alternative >>> benchmark; and while (again, arguably rightly) it is important to >>> benchmark real world performance, equally, nobody has offered any >>> numbers in relation to, for example, HTTP or SMTP, or any other "real >>> world"-application torture tests done on the aforementioned two >>> platforms... IMO, this just goes to show that "doing is hard" and >>> "criticising is much easier" (yes, I am aware of the irony involved in >>> making this statement, but someone has to!) >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Igor M :-) >> >> Unfortunately, M. Larabel is the only one who's performing benchmarks on >> FreeBSD, comparing its performance to the Linux-opponents. Adn indeed, >> there is a lot of criticism, but no alternative. >> I said unfortunately - not offensive - since Larabel and Phoronix are >> sadly the only ones who do actually such bechmarking. >> >> It would be much more nicer and kind to support those people. >> >> Well, in January/February we get new hardware. One box is supposed to do >> number crunching via 12 cores and a TESLA GPU. My colleague is >> developing a high parallelized peice of software for satellite data >> transformation. The software package is CPU bound, partially GPU, but >> massively memory hungry (96 to 128 GB RAM is needed). >> What I can offer is, since I will also work on that machine and I've >> free hand to administer, in the spare time of doing my PhD, installing >> FreeBSD 9.0/10.0 besides SuSe Linux and looking forward having one ZFS >> data storage drive for homes, so both systems can perform on a most >> recent ZFS. I'm new to Linux, not a BSD guru, nor I'm a professional >> programmer/developer. My skills are sufficient for the daily scientific >> work. So, without pressure, I'm willing to perform some HPC benchmarks >> under advice if the day comes and those interested in bare numbers of >> FreeBSD vs. Linux performance with a real-world-scientific application. >> >> I would appreciate to see some of the developers and/or FreeBSD hackers >> to help Phoronix setting up a proper testenvironment instead of bashing >> M. Larabel and his fellows. >> >> Regards, >> Oliver >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Wed Dec 21 2011 - 00:29:31 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:22 UTC