[Beowulf] file IO benchmark

Joachim Worringen joachim at ccrl-nece.de
Thu Nov 24 05:49:08 PST 2005


Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Thursday 24 November 2005 19:43, Toon Knapen wrote:
> 
> 
>>Now my question is: what is the 'de facto' standard of disk benchmarks
>>that can be run on a variety of platforms?
> 
> 
> I've always liked Bonnie++ from fellow Melbournite Russel Coker:
> 
> 	http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/

Well, the problem is that this is single-process, single-file benchmark, which 
is often very different from the I/O that a parallel application performs.

  Joachim

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