What Benchmarks Do You Care About?
We’re integrating new benchmarks into FLOPx. What data would you like to see?
What’s your favourite benchmark? The one you instinctively turn to when you want to get a feeling for the performance of a system.
Thera are, of course, no right or wrong answers here (except LINPACK 😀, kidding!) just whichever one most closely resembles your real workload.
I don’t think it’s much of a secret that we work primarily in financial services and the benchmark data we have chosen to include in FLOPx (our cloud and metal performance comparison tool) is quite FSI biased. We’re looking to expand it. Both with additional benchmarks within the finance world but also more broadly with other HPC/ supercomputing relevant workloads.
The obvious missing data point is the QuantLib benchmark (regardless of my own feelings about it) but what else would you like to see?
Would having the results from the SPEC benchmark suite be useful or is that data widely and easily available such that there’s no additional value?
Anything from the Phoronic HPC test suite? OpenFOAM perhaps?
I’m sure you’d love to have them all, but we have to pay to run these ourselves and I haven’t stuck a “dot AI” at the end of our name yet so I’m not made of money 🤣
Answers on a postcard to HMx Towers please.
