CentOS - Nov 2008 - CPU benchmarking tools

Can anyone suggest a good CPU, and memory if possible, benchmarking tool 
as we have some new kit that needs benchmarks running against it.

thanks

Tom Brown wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a good CPU, and memory if possible, benchmarking 
> tool as we have some new kit that needs benchmarks running against it.

measure your application performance.   anything else is BS.

Tom Brown wrote:
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>> measure your application performance. anything else is BS.
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> well not really as we have different CPU's from Intel and AMD and we 
> want to see how these benchmark without benchmarking the apps(s) as 
> apps are many and benchmarking them all against all the apps is not 
> possible. 
In this month's IEEE Spectrum magazine there is an interesting study on 
multi core CPUs and 'intensive computing' done at Sandia labs Seems like
with the current data bus architecture, 8 core is the max for data 
access intensive applications like data mining. So I am thinking that if 
you need to move lots of data for your applications, the CPU is not the 
limiter, it is how the system moves data into and out of the CPU(s) that 
needs to be considered.