Performance

As a basic performance test we run the simulations in the test directory with these commands (on Linux):

cd testjobs
time ./calc_testjobs

• We report the user time.
• CPU properties are found with

  cat /proc/cpuinfo

  and model names from List_of_Intel_microprocessors for Intel (also see the detailed lists of Intel x86 cpus) and List_of_AMD_microprocessors for AMD cpus (also see the detailed lists of AMD cpus).
• Also report the binary used (hippo or hippo_p3) and the revision.
• Note that these tests only utilize a single core.
• These results only give a rough idea of the relative performance of different architectures.

Please add your own results.

vendor	model	GHz	cores	time/min	binary	revision
Intel	Core 2 Quad Q9550	2.83	4	1:04	hippo	rev32
Intel	Core 2 Quad Q9550	2.83	4	1:06	hippo_p3	rev32
Intel	Quad Core Xeon E4520	2.5	4	1:25	hippo	rev32
Intel	Quad Core Xeon L5410	2.33	4	1:27	hippo	rev32
Intel	Quad Core Xeon L5410	2.33	4	1:31	hippo_p3	rev32
AMD	Phenom 9850 Quad-Core	2.75	4	1:36	hippo_p3	rev32
AMD	Opteron 248	2.2	1	2:18	hippo_p3	rev32
Intel	Core Duo T2300 (Mac Mini)	1.66	2	2:41	hippo_p3	rev32
Intel	Xeon 2.4	2.4	1	3:03	hippo_p3	rev26
AMD	Athlon XP 1800+	1.53	1	4:30	hippo_p3	rev26

(You don't have to link to the CPU wikipedia page; just put down whatever you got and even if you're unsure. If in doubt just put the output from

cat /proc/cpuinfo | \
  awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"}; \
      /vendor_id/ {vendor=$2}; \
      /model name/ {model=$2}; \
      /cpu MHz/ {GHz=$2/1000}; \
      /siblings/ {cores=$2}; \
      END {printf("|-\n| %s\n| %s\n| %.1f\n| %d\n| TIME\n| ?\n| ?\n", vendor, model, GHz, cores)}'

into the wiki table and replace TIME by what you measured.