List of benchmarking methods and software tools

There are many benchmarking methods each having different analytical focus. The methods are mostly known and will be shown in the following summary. == Benchmarking software tools ==

There are a number software tools that allow the support of different kinds of benchmarking types. == Benchmarking HPC Clusters ==

There are numerous suites for examining the performance of a High Performance Computing cluster, including • ADEPT 4 suites relating to energy measurements • HPCC, HPCG, Linpack • IMB (Intel MPI Benchmark) gives rates for common MPI-1 point-to-point and collectives • Mantevo series of "mini apps" from Sandia National Labs (SNL) • NAS and NPB • SHOC for accelerators • Stream (memory b/w) == See also ==