wspy – added support for –memstats
I have added support to wspy for the –memstats option.
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OpenFOAM summary
I’ve analyzed the OpenFOAM CFD application using the motorbike tutorial page and created an analysis page for the results as well as added it to the overall workload summary. This post describes a few high-level takeaways I have from the … Continue reading →
openfoam notes
OpenFOAM is free CFD software. While one can build it from source, there are also prebuilt Ubuntu repositories that I used in my testing.
Continue reading →gromacs – summary
I’ve analyzed the gromacs computational chemistry application using three sample workloads and created an analysis page for the results as well as added them to the overall workload summary. This post describes a few higher-level takeaways I have from the … Continue reading →
gromacs 5.1.5, Ryzen build issues (use -DGMX_SIMD)
I downloaded and built gromacs from www.gromacs.org and used the 5.1.5 version because some of the tutorials/benchmarks still refer to this older version. This post documents steps I used to run gromacs 5.1.5 on a Ryzen processor.
Continue reading →gromacs – setup notes
This post documents steps I used to build, install and run gromacs. gromacs is a molecular dynamics package for simulating proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. It seems to be one of the more common HPC applications. My interest is less … Continue reading →
topdown equivalent metrics for AMD Zen?
Intel processors provide a useful set of performance counters for doing topdown analysis, particularly at the first topdown level. This first level asks questions in the following hierarchy: Is a Uop dispatched? If yes, is it retired? If yes –> … Continue reading →
Phoronix article – CPU comparison (2018-06-08)
Phoronix posted an article comparing 28 desktop CPUs. This post reviews some of the workloads that were used.
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On the upper left of the web site is now an item labeled “phoronix”. Clicking there returns a table with a long list of Phoronix benchmarks. For each I’ve recorded the description, scores when running on my Intel reference system, … Continue reading →
Phoronix article – OS comparison (2018-05-31)
Phoronix posted an article comparing 15 different OS versions. This posting doesn’t reproduce the measurements, but instead looks at overall summaries made as well as looks at the benchmarks being used for comparisons.
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