Pre-requisite #1: MPIįollowing Rocks recommendations, this and other pre-requisites will be installed under /share/apps/ software installed by me, in clusters at Michigan Tech, have the following template for their folder structure: HPL, a portable implementation of High Performance LINPACK Benchmark, is used as a performance measure for ranking the supercomputers in the Top500 list. The result is often expressed in billions of floating point operations per second ( GFLOPS). The solution is obtained by Gaussian Elimination with Partial Pivoting, withįloating point iterations.
Introduced by Jack Dongarra, they measure how fast a computer solves a dense N * N system of linear equations, Ax = b.
The LINPACK benchmarks are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power. It has largely been superseded by LAPACK, which runs more efficiently on modern architectures. LINPACK makes use of the BLAS libraries for performing basic vector and matrix operations. It was written in FORTRAN by Jack Dongarra, Jim Bunch, Cleve Moler and Gilbert Stewart. LINPACK is a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on computers. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site,, nor its author (or Michigan Technological University) is responsible for any/all damage – intellectual and/or otherwise. These instructions may very well work for you (or your institution), on Rocks-like or other linux clusters.
How to run linpack benchmark for linux full version#
The instructions/steps given below worked for me (and Michigan Technological University) running Rocks 5.4.2 (with CentOS 5.5) – as has been a common practice for several years now, a full version of Operating System was installed.