MIT Lincoln Laboratory (http://www.ll.mit.edu/.) has enabled its next generation LLGrid interactive/on-demand parallel computing system. This system was provided to Lincoln Laboratory via a DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Distributed High Performance Investment in collaboration with Dell Computer, Inc.
The DoD HPCMP-mandated acceptance test was conducted using the HPC Challenge benchmark suite (http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc/). This benchmark suite is designed to stress a wide variety of parallel components: processor, memory, network bandwidth, and network latency. As part of the acceptance test, Lincoln Laboratory ran 170 variations using different processors and memory sizes.
This baseline performance data is available here, MIT LLGrid data.
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