Evaluation of Early Systems

Past Performance Results

The following results are for experiments that have not yet been updated with data from the newest systems or using the newest system software. If not otherwise noted, these data were collected during the summer of 2000.

Applications

Bioinformatics

• Performance results for MPP-BLAST2 benchmark on IBM SP and Compaq AlphaServer SC. (September, 2000)

Climate

• CCM/MP-2D parallel performance on IBM SP, Compaq AlphaServer SC, SGI Origin2000, and Cray T3E. (June, 2000)
• Parallel Climate Transition Model performance and performance analysis on IBM SP, Compaq AlphaServer SC, and SGI Origin2000. (November, 2000)

Crash Simulations

• LS-DYNA performance for car-to-car and car-to-barrier benchmarks on IBM SP and Compaq AlphaServer SC. (September, 2000)

Others

• FSPX alloy solidification benchmark. Results courtesy of Vasilios Alexiades.

Microbenchmarks and Standard Kernels

• CPU, memory, shared-memory, message-passing, and kernel benchmark data for the Compaq AlphaServer SC and IBM SP
• Point-to-point message-passing bandwidth on a variety of systems
• Message-passing protocol sensitivity studies

Systems

• Compaq AlphaServer SC at Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center