A portable version of the standard Linpack benchmarkKnoxville 17 Oct 2000 HPL, a portable implementation of the high-performance Linpack Benchmark for distributed-memory computers has been released. It is written by Petitet, Whaley, Dongarra, and Cleary. It can be used to benchmark the performance of machines and use the results for comparison, or inclusion, in the TOP500 list of supercomputers.
HPL is a software package that solves a random
dense linear system in 64-bits arithmetic
on distributed-memory computers. It is
a portable as well as freely available implementation of the High
Performance Computing Linpack Benchmark.
The HPL package provides a testing and timing programme to quantify
the accuracy of the obtained solution as well as
the time it took to compute it. The best performance
achievable by this software on your system depends on a large variety
of factors. Check out Netlib for more information and for the code.
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