Bootable Utility for Balanced Benchmarking and Archiving

• Published in: 2007 4th IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications pp. 244 - 248
• Main Authors: Adamec, S., Duplichien, C., Yenduri, S., Perkins, L.A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-09-2007
• Subjects: Benchmark; Benchmark testing; Boot; Control systems; File systems; Hardware; Image coding; Kernel; Linux; Operating systems; Performance evaluation
• ISBN: 9781424413478; 1424413478
• DOI: 10.1109/IDAACS.2007.4488414

We present a user-friendly method for generating comparable high-precision benchmark information. By conducting computational performance benchmarks in a standardized bootable environment built on the 2.6.21 Linux kernel, we are able to reduce imprecision associated with context switching: such as that required for the maintenance of daemon processes on a user's machine. By conducting tests multiple times per benchmark run, we are able to reduce the impact of single imprecise results, and provide statistics on the error of the scoring during a benchmark run. Finally, by uploading the benchmark results accompanied by a user name, a database of highly comparable scores can be generated, providing a resource for competitive benchmarking and processor performance reference.