Benchmarking: Performance on ALPS and Formosa Clusters

This paper presents the benchmarking results and performance evaluation of differentclustersbuilt atthe National Center for High-Performance Computingin Taiwan. Performance of processor, memory subsystem andinterconnect is a critical factor in the overall performance of high performance computing platforms. The evaluation compares different system architecture and software platforms. Most supercomputer used HPL to benchmark their system performance, in accordance with the requirement of the TOP500 List. In this paper we consider system memory access factors that affect benchmark performance, such as processor and memory performance.We hope these works will provide useful information for future development and construct cluster system.

Authors:

• Chih-Wei Hsieh
• Chau-Yi Chou
• Sheng-HsiuKuo
• Tsung-Che Tsai
• I-Chen Wu

Keywords:

• Performance Evaluation
• Benchmarking and High-Performance Computing

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