A Few of the Most Popular Tools for Evaluating Supercomputers

Computer benchmarks are computer programs that form standard tests of the performance of a computer and the software through which it is used. In this paper we discuss the purpose, significance and method of benchmarking supercomputers, describe the state of the art, and review a few of the mainstream benchmarks for supercomputer evaluation, among them, Linpack is the most popular for the famous TOP500 ranking list. In addition to this, there is the benchmark for the Graph500 ranking list which pays attention to the data processing ability, there are the Rodinia and SHOC benchmarks for evaluating the heterogeneous supercomputers composed of both GPUs and multi-core CPUs, there is still the DEISA benchmark for various other purposes.