[Fwd: Benchmarking Beowulf]

Greg Lindahl lindahl@cs.virginia.edu
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:52:59 -0400


> Well, "peak" performance in MFLOPS is equal to clock 
> rate in MHZ.  Thus, a PII 450 cannot exceed 450 MFLOPS.
> However, on linpack, I get:   
> 
> (1) Dual PII 350 (with 1 processor) gives 72.7 MFLOPS:

Note that most people mean "linpack on a big matrix" when they say
"Linpack benchmark". Linpack on size 100 or size 1000 is usually
called "Linpack 100" or "Linpack 1000".

-- g