This page provides links to documentation and resources associated with benchmarks for the UK NNSS procurement process.
The benchmarks will play a key role in the procurement process and span full application benchmarks to synthetic micro-benchmarks. Please ensure you read the benchmark descriptions carefully to understand the rules around source code modification, mandatory runtime configuration and options and the data that needs to be submitted at various stages in the procurement process.
This page and the benchmark descriptions will be maintained and updated throughout the procurement process. Updates will be recorded in the CHANGELOG.
The application benchmarks have been chosen to exercise a range of system requirements and technical characteristics in areas of key importance to the UK research community.
The IO benchmarks are designed to be easily executed tests that provide a way compare the performance of the parallel file system(s) that are included in the procurement on a range of different metrics and IO patterns.
The synthetic micro-benchmarks are a set of simple to build and execute tests that compare key technical features of the systems in a consistent way. See the individual test descriptions for detail on the requirements.