Question Benchlight: A SPEC-inspired benchmark harness (with results!)

[LightningDust]

Hi all!

I've put together a simple harness for the redistributable free-software components of two SPEC subtests at https://desertelectric.org/benchlight - it includes some results for less-common systems. I thought some folks here might find it interesting.

It requires a roughly Unix-like system with a roughly Bourne-compatible shell, Perl, and the Perl datetime module, but is otherwise pretty portable and is known to run on Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, and - in a previous version - HP-UX.

 

[CouncilorIrissa]

I was wondering whether we could get some IA-64 CPU score as the baseline.
...then I went to the results section. I was not disappointed.

 

[Nothingness]

Nice work

I hope you'll update with more tests and SPECv8.

 

[LightningDust]

My email server had wildcards misconfigured, so if any of y'all sent results today, feel free to resend them.

 

[LightningDust]

Nice work

I hope you'll update with more tests and SPECv8.

I have two (non-SPEC-derived) subtests in the works. I'm open to using redistributable components from SPECv8 when it comes out.

 

[Nothingness]

I have two (non-SPEC-derived) subtests in the works. I'm open to using redistributable components from SPECv8 when it comes out.

At least two of them should be more interesting than xz and pretty easy to integrate with data sets easy to obtain

 

[LightningDust]

At least two of them should be more interesting than xz and pretty easy to integrate with data sets easy to obtain

I'm interested...

Did they finally ditch OpenMP in SPECspeed? That was the single worst decision of CPU2017.