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I've been asked to evaluate a new vendor's computing system and management has requested that I do NOT use any of our existing software to evaluate the platform (believe it or not, they have some valid reasons).
Anyways, I've started trying to read up on meaningful benchmark programs for server-grade computers but haven't been all that impressed. I'm trying to demonstrate raw computing power and memory I/O throughput.
Any suggestions on meaningful tests that I should run? -- I will have access to both the existing system and the system to evaluate for all of these tests.
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1) Disable turboboost. 2) Disable hyper threading. 3) Set scaling_governor to 'performance' 4) Set cpu affinity.
UserBenchMark is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is MangoHUD, which is both free and Open Source.
Benchmarking is the act of measuring performance and comparing the results to another system's results or a widely accepted standard through a unified procedure.
In computing, sysbench is an open-source software tool. Specifically it is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmarking tool designed for Linux systems. It is a C binary and uses LuaJIT scripts to execute benchmarks.
Phoronix has a benchmark suite for Linux. Maybe it is sufficent for you.
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I ended up using the following sites to arrive at some somewhat meaningful benchmarks:
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I like UnixBenchmark - http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/. It's a well rounded test.
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SPEC is a fairly standardized and well recognized set of benchmarks. They are not free, but not very expensive. There are also a lot of published benchmark results for various servers on their web site.
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