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A few IDL benchmarck results
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Thu, 18 October 2001 10:53  |
K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000
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Here are a few results from an IDL code I use for benchmarks. It is a
medium-sized code (~2000 lines altogether). It does no graphics. It
does a fair amount of I/O (netCDF), which uses ~10% of the cpu time.
It typically uses ~100 MB of memory, so it is well outside of cache
sizes. The bulk of the computational time is spent doing interpolation
(indirect indexing of arrays and vectorized multiplication), so it does
not make very efficient use of caches. There are no FOR loops in the
computational part of the code. It is entirely single-precision.
System Clock CPU OS version Time (s)
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Alpha DS20 667 MHz 21264 Tru64 UNIX V5.0A (Rev. 1094) 37
Powermac G4 867 Mhz PPC G4 Mac OS 9.2 under Mac OS X 58
Powermac G4 500 MHz PPC G4 Mac OS 9.1 77
Powerbook G4 400 Mhz PPC G4 Mac OS 9.1 90
Alpha 500au 21164? Digital Unix V4.0 878 108
SGI O2000 180 MHz? IRIX 6.5 IP27 136
SGI O200 180 MHz? IRIX 6.5 IP27 150
SGI O2 IRIX 6.3 IP32 328
Sorry that I don't have all the specs. Some of these machines are so
old I don't remember.
All the calculations are single-threaded. I'm hopoing to re-run them
soon with IDL 5.5 and multi-threading turned on.
We have some 1.7 GHz DP Pentium boxes running Linux. I'll add some
numbers when our sysadmin gets IDL installed.
The PowerMac looks very good in comparison to the much more expensive
Alpha DS20. I was looking forward to a dual processor PowerMac G4 for
about 20% of the cost of the DS20. (NB: due to single-precision
Altivec unit, double-precision codes would not do nearly as well on the
Mac.)
Ken
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