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I did some simple tests with the whetstone program on several RTs running
AOS (Dec. 1988) with various floating point configurations.  Here are the
results.

#define ITERATIONS      100
e_afpa
12.4u 0.1s 0:13 96% 11+23k 0+1io 3pf+0w
afpa
12.8u 0.1s 0:13 94% 12+23k 0+0io 5pf+0w
mc881
16.2u 0.0s 0:16 97% 11+23k 0+0io 3pf+0w
#define ITERATIONS      1000
e_afpa
123.3u 0.2s 2:04 99% 12+23k 0+1io 5pf+0w
afpa
127.2u 0.1s 2:08 99% 12+23k 0+1io 5pf+0w
mc881
161.0u 0.1s 2:41 99% 12+23k 0+1io 7pf+0w


If you're interested, here is where you can get the program that I used.


/* Written  4:09 pm  Jul 27, 1989 by davies@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:general */
Argonne National Laboratory has an automatic system for fetching
various public-domain software (mostly Fortran numerical code,
but also some in other languages) that includes these and other
benchmarks.  The following was returned to me by e-mail by sending
a mail message to:

	netlib@anl-mcs.arpa

with the body of the message being:

	send index from benchmarks.

To get e.g. whetstone.c, put this in the message:

	send whetstonec from benchmarks.

To get general information about netlib, try:

	send index.

						Jim


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*** from netlib, Tue Feb 14 08:37:11 CST 1989 ***
LINPACKS The LINPACK benchmark program in single precision.

LINPACKD The LINPACK benchmark program in double precision.

LINPACKC The LINPACK benchmark program done in C.
        Translated to C by Bonnie Toy 5/88.


LIVERMORE
        The Livermore loops in single precision. (Fortran) 
        A program used by some to benchmark supercomputers.
	Frank McMahaon LLNL 1/26/88

LIVERMOREC
        A 'C' version of the Livermore loops program,
        a program used by some to benchmark supercomputers.
	Frank McMahaon LLNL 1/26/88

LUS The linear equation solver used in the paper by Dongarra and Eisenstat
        that is based on matrix-vector operations. This is the single
        precision version.

LUD The linear equation solver used in the paper by Dongarra and Eisenstat
        that is based on matrix-vector operations. This is the double
        precision version.

PERFORMANCE
        A post script copy of the paper by J. Dongarra, `Performance
        of Various Computers Using Standard Linear Algebra Software
        in a Fortran Environment'

PERF-UPD
	A log of updates made to the above report.

VECTOR  a program to check the vectorizing capabilities of a compiler.
        D. Callahan, J. Dongarra, & D. Levine, 3/16/88

WHETSTONEC The Whetstone benchmark in C.  This program is a translation of the
 	original Algol version in "A Synthetic Benchmark" by H.J. Curnow
        and B.A. Wichman in Computer Journal, Vol  19 #1, February 1976.

WHETSTONES The Whetstone benchmark in single precision Fortran.

WHETSTONED The Whetstone benchmark in double precision Fortran.

DHRYSTONE Benchmark Program in C.
DHRYSTONE-ADA Benchmark Program in Ada.

KARP-CHALLENGE Alan Karp's challenge on parallel vs sequential computing.

NBSLIB A version of netlib runs at NBS and they distribute benchmark
       software.

BELL-AWARD details of the following prize:
       Beginning in 1988, two $1000 awards will be given each year for 10
       years to the person or team that demonstrates the greatest speedup on a
       multiple-instruction, multiple-data parallel processor.

NAS  A benchmark test program has been developed for use by the NAS program at
     NASA Ames Research Center to aid in the evaluation of supercomputer
     performance. 
     David H. Bailey, NASA Ames Research Center, June 24, 1988

NAS-DOC  tex documentation for NAS
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