IBM Spectrum LSF Suite: Installation Best Practices Guide

Performance benchmarks

High-performance computing (HPC) benchmarks are widely used to evaluate and rank system performance.

This chapter introduces some of the most commonly used benchmarks, and describes a procedure about how to conduct them by using IBM Spectrum LSF on IBM POWER9™ AC922 servers. A similar methodology can be used on x86 (including NVIDIA DGX) and arm based servers.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•4.1, “Highly Parallel LINPACK” on page 26

•4.2, “OSU micro-benchmarks” on page 33

•4.3, “STREAM benchmark” on page 41