SUPERCOMPUTER BENCHMARKING

This paper evaluates the performance of various supercomputer systems. The evaluation has been done by an extensive benchmark set used in a 1994 procurement project for supercomputing at the Center for Scientif ic Computing (CSC) in Finland. This report includes a description of t he benchmark set and its results. The benchmark set can be divided in four parts: CSCSUITE2 single processor benchmarks, HIRLAM weather fore cast application. Genesis distributed memory tests and other applicati on tests. CSCSUITE has been developed at CSC during the last five year s. HIRLAM is a weather forecast model currently in production used in several countries, including Finland. Genesis is an internationally kn own distributed memory benchmark package developed mainly at Universit y of Southampton (UK). Other tests include some of the most popular pa ckages used in CSC's computing environment, such as Gaussian, FINFLO a nd MHDEXP.