[Condor-users] Condor Benchmarking on Windows Platform

[James Osborne <OsborneJA1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

One of my users has asked me an interesting
question, to which I do not know the answer, so here it is in a nutshell...

How are Vanilla Universe KFLOPS and
MIPS calculated by Condor version 6.8.6 on the Windows platform ?

He wants to perform a comparison between
an "average" node in our Condor pool and a regular (non Condor)
machine.

After gathering the values from various
ClassAds he is of the opinion that the values for KFLOPS and MIPS are too
high.

I presume that for the Java Universe
scimark2 from http://math.nist.gov/scimark2
is used (found the jar file)

Unfortunately he does not want JavaMIPS,
so the question remains...

How are Vanilla Universe KFLOPS and
MIPS calculated by Condor version 6.8.6 on the Windows platform ?

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.8/2_5Submitting_Job.html
is a helpful pointer, however...

Can you provide as much detail as possible
please, so that he can 

1) Validate that the KFLOPS and MIPS
values advertised in the ClassAd are sensible

2) Run the same benchmark on a non Condor
machine

KFLOPS - (if Linpack is used , then
we will need the version of Linpack used, build instructions or binaries,
compiler and version used to build if not binaries, the HPL.dat file used
etc)

MIPS - (similarly for the Dhrystone
benchmark re things needed above)

If all of this is integrated into one
or more of the Condor daemons (one presumes so), would it be possible to
have access to the appropriate source code files ?

I suspect Todd or Dan will know who
to ask...

Thanks in advance

Best regards

James
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Dr James Osborne
Application Support Engineer 
Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)

Cardiff University
Redwood Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff CF10 3NB

Tel +44(0)29 2087 4657
Email osborneja1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.cardiff.ac.uk/arcca
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