This page is about my port to Linux/Unix of release 2 of BYTE Magazine's BYTEmark benchmark program (previously known as BYTE's Native Mode Benchmarks).
perfex is a utility which accesses the hardware performance counters on Intel P6-based Linux systems to measure performance characteristics of other programs. It functions similarly to the Cray UNICOS hpm and the SGI IRIX perfex utilities, in that you...
This site focuses on three basic uses of benchmarking: Comparing similar versions of Linux on different hardware, comparing different versions of Linux on the same hardware, and comparing Linux to other operating systems on the same hardware.
SGI Runs TPC-H Benchmark on Linux on a SGI 1450 server with four nodes, each of which has four processors, running a 2.4.3 kernel and IBM's DB2 database. The resulting performance set a new world record for databases.
