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Four specific applications—HPL, HPCG, STREAM, and OSU—were tested on the reference system as described in the Table 3.
High Performance Linpack (HPL) is a classic TC benchmark that has been used to measure system size and performance for many years (TOP500). It is a portable implementation of the Linpack benchmark and performs an LU factorization on a large matrix to measure the floating point execution rate.
High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) is designed to complement HPL with data access and compute patterns that more closely match current workloads in TC.
STREAM measures sustained memory bandwidth with four different kernels: Copy, Scale, Add, and Triad. Triad is the most frequently requested metric of these four kernels.
OSU Micro-Benchmarks are a suite of network benchmarks that can test many aspects of the network performance such as latency, bandwidth, message rate for point-to-point tests and collectives.