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How are the line and page sizes justified from the graph?
I Googled upon this paper that uses a cool way to interpret the latencies, line sizes, and page sizes of a cache from a graph like this.
Apparently, the line size is where the the cache begins to ...
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CPU benchmarks for numerical kernels
CPU benchmarks available online mostly focus on desktop apps/games and rarely on serial/parallel numerical kernels, specially sparse ones (e.g., MatMult). Some benchmarks like NAS/SciMark exists but ...
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Effects of memory speed/architecture on Pardiso scaling
I am using a program that utilizes the PARDISO solver as part of the Intel math kernel library. I am currently in the process of deciding on a new computer to run the simulations on. I have a ...
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How much better are Fortran compilers really?
This question is an extension of two discussions that came up recently in the replies to "C++ vs Fortran for HPC". And it is a bit more of a challenge than a question...
One of the most often-heard ...
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Benchmarking performance in CFD: how to compare machines and codes?
Informally in our lab, we have developed 2 metrics to compare CFD solvers over
the range of machines we have access to. One is called COMP, which stands
for COde Machine Performance. This single ...
