Benchmarks at CyberInfrastructure Partnership

• What is CIP Benchmarks?
• Application Benchmarks
  • GAMESS
  • MILC
  • NAMD
  • PARATEC
  • WRF
• Synthetic Benchmarks
  • HPCC
  • IOR
• Computing Resources

CIP Benchmarks

Recently, NCSA teamed-up with SDSC (under the Cyberinterfrastruture partnership) to test a combination of applications and kernels on NCSA’s and SDSC’s production machines. Some of these applications and kernels are part of NCSA’s benchmark suite known as the NCSAbench. This benchmarking activity has a dual role: to serve as a reference for users when assessing the relative performance of new systems or deciding where to run their application, and to serve as a component in the acceptance criteria of new systems.

This benchmark suite will evolve to include applications and kernels that are typical of NCSA and SDSC users' codes that consume large amounts of computer resources.

The benchmark codes we used to test our machines are:

GAMESS	"is the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System code designed for high-performance simulation of general ab-initio quantum chemistry." [TI-06]
MILC	"is a body of high performance research software written in C for doing SU(3) lattice gauge theory on several different (MIMD) parallel computers in current use.” [MILC]
NAMD	"is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems." [NAMD]
PARATEC	"performs ab initio quantum-mechanical total energy calculations using pseudopotentials and a plane wave basis set.” [PAR]
WRF	"(Weather Research and Forecast) is a weather modeling system developed at NCAR." [TI-06]
HPCC	is a set of benchmarks that consists of seven synthetic benchmarks. [HPCC]
IOR	"is used for benchmarking parallel file systems using POSIX, MPIIO, or HDF5 interfaces." [IOR]

Any questions regarding this portion of the CIP web site should be directed to Nahil Sobh at NCSA and Amitava Majumdar at SDSC.