Benchmarks Archive

"Ok, that headline may be a bit overblown - but Microsoft Research has released part of a report on the Singularity kernel they've been working on as part of their planned shift to network computing. The report includes some performance comparisons that show Singularity beating everything else on a 1.8Ghz AMD Athlon-based machine. What's noteworthy about it is that Microsoft compared Singularity to FreeBSD and Linux as well as Windows/XP - and almost every result shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants."

This is an interesting comparison of OpenOffice 2.0 Calc and MS Office 2003 Excel. The author found that OOo is slow in some operations and takes a lot of RAM & CPU.

Anandtech did an excellent job benchmarking some of the latest CPU's from IBM, Intel, and AMD. This is primarily aimed at server performance, but some interesting details surrounding Mac OS X surfaced.

According to Apple, "...unmodified applications that use the system math functions will get an automatic performance boost on the G5..." when switching from Panther to Tiger. BearFeats decided to run some tests to see if they got a speed gain right out of the box with applications that we suspect use system math functions.

HP and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have collaborated on a new 11.8-teraflop Supercomputer for the Department of Energy. The $24 Million HP Supercomputer uses the Linux OS and Intel's Itanium2 processors.

The IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just got a fresh dose of steroids. Its number-crunching speed has been pumped up to a phenomenal 183.5 trillion calculations every second. That's 183.5 teraflops in geek-speak -- double the 92 teraflops world record that BlueGene set just six months ago.

This article will show you how to benchmark operating system performance using MySQL on these OSes so you can find out for yourself if you're missing out. While this may not necessarily be indicative of overall system performance or overall database application performance, it will tell you specifically how well MySQL performs on your platform.

According to new benchmarks NetBSD's performance has increased. In this benchmark NetBSD surpassed FreeBSD in nearly every test.

BareFeats is continuing their benchmark articles for the fastest workstation/desktop machines around.

An ongoing series of articles that track the quality of programming tools for Linux, including Opteron and Pentium 4 tests for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and Intel C++.

Here are a few interesting benchmarks on QEMU, Valgrid simulation, Bochs and native speeds on x86. Also, a new stable release, Valgrind 2.2.0, is available. 2.2.0 brings many improvements over 2.0.0, and includes the new Massif heap-profiling tool.

On June 23, 2004, Sun published a whitepaper showcasing superior JavaTM 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) web services performance when compared to Microsoft's .NET. Microsoft published a response on July 14th refuting claims and stating that in their tests .NET performance was higher than Java Web Services. More here and a reply from Microsoft here.

To get a well-rounded breakdown of where Linux is going, and where it trumps (or fails against) Windows, AnandTech took the two largest 64-bit Linux distributions, their 32-bit counterparts, and the Windows XP 64-bit public beta for a test drive.

This article surveys a number of benchmarks and finds that Java performance on numerical code is comparable to that of C++, with hints that Java's relative performance is continuing to improve. Then they describe clear theoretical reasons why these benchmark results should be expected.