Results from Previous Brem Benchmark

This page documents results obtained with the brem benchmark's previous version. The timings should be the same to within a couple of percent, but I guess I am fastidious about comparing apples and crabapples.

results from my machine

Configuration: Pentium Pro 200 MHz (Gateway G6-200), 64 MB RAM, 256k cache, SCSI.
Linux 2.0.27 (RedHat 4.1).

Absoft F77 for Linux (v3.4), optimized "-O"  ---  211 seconds
Portland Group (beta) F77,   optimized "-O4" ---  215 seconds
f2c/gcc (driver: fort77),    optimized "-O4" ---  259 seconds
brem90 Absoft F90 beta,      optimized "-O"  ---  155 seconds(!)
brem90 Absoft F90 beta,      optimized "-O -B100" 154 seconds(!)
                             NOTE: -B100 is Pentium Pro optimization
Absoft F77 for Linux (v4.4)  optimized "-O"  ---  197 seconds(!)

Very very interesting that the F90 version is actually faster!

results from Peter Smulders

(p.j.m.smulders@phys.rug.nl)

Peter sent a fairly detailed list of results, so this has been placed on its own subpage. Peter also sent in a bug fix for the brem package; one of the arrays was never initialized to zero, and the program returned garbage for systems which do not automatically initialize variables to zero at beginning of program.

results from Jesper James

(jjj@oedan.dk)

Both tests are run on PowerPC model 43P, running AIX 4.2.1 both systems
with 128MB RAM. The compiler is IBM XL fortran version 4 (level 4.1.0.6).
optimization flags: -O3 -qarch=ppc -qtune=604

On a 200Mhz machine the results are:
xlf :  user 145.14, sys 0.20
xlf90: user  91.37, sys 0.14

on a 332 Mhz machine the program runs as:
xlf:   user  86.98, sys 0.27
xlf90: user  52.67, sys 0.18

results from Nikolas Kauer

(nkauer@students.wisc.edu)

Configuration: Pentium 200MHz, 64 MB SDRAM, 512K L2 cache
FreeBSD-2.2.2
a) precompiled binaries (in Linux compatibility mode)
Portland Group (beta) F77,   optimized "-O4" ---  229 seconds
f2c/gcc (driver: fort77),    optimized "-O4" ---  269 seconds
brem90 Absoft F90 beta,      optimized "-O"  ---  180 seconds
Absoft F77 for Linux (v4.4)  optimized "-O"  ---  196 seconds

b) native FreeBSD binaries
f2c (f77reorder-2.27, f2c, gcc-2.7.2.3) (-O4) --  328 seconds
g77-0.5.19.1, gcc-2.7.2.1               (-O) ---  297 seconds
g77/egcs-980205                         (-O) ---  298 seconds
g77/pgcc-1.0.1               (-O6 -mpentium) ---  292 seconds

2) on some machines of our Alpha cluster (f77 -O brem.f+gammln.f)
Puget Alpha 500/533MHz 256 MB SDRAM          ---   42.7 sec
Digital Alpha 255/300MHz 192 MB DRAM         ---  118.7 sec
DEC 3000 AXP 400/175MHz 64 MB DRAM           ---  270.8 sec

results from George Lai

Configuration: Pentium II 233 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 512k cache, SCSI
Linux 2.0.31 (RedHat 4.2)

*Portland Group (1.6-4) F77,  optimized "-O"  ---  142 seconds
 Portland Group (beta)  F77,  optimized "-O4" ---  146 seconds
 Absoft F77 for Linux,        optimized "-O"  ---  127 seconds
 f2c/gcc,                     optimized "-O4" ---  181 seconds

results from Michael Taeschner

Configuration: i486 100 MHz, 256K L2 cache, 32 MB RAM.
Linux 2.0.30 (SUSE 4.4.1).

                    xterm            console
Absoft binary:      1245s             1108s
PG binary:          1366s             
F2c binary:         1527s
g77-0.5.21:         1446s (1)         1260s (1)
egcs-2.90.14:       1440s (1)         1266s (1)

Remarks from Mr. Taeschner.

results from Peter Teuben

Configuration: two-processor Pentium-Pro 200 MHz system.
Linux 2.0.0 (Slackware 3.1).

Absoft F77 for Linux (v3.4), optimized "-O"  ---  171 seconds
Portland Group (beta) F77,   optimized "-O4" ---  204 seconds
g77                                          ---  232 seconds
f2c/gcc (driver: fort77),    optimized "-O4" ---  n/a

results from Wesley K. Cobb (wkcobb@cepheus.ne.highway1.com)

Configuration: P5/90, 64 MB Ram, 256K cache, SCSI, EIDE.
Linux 2.0.27 (RedHat 4.1).

Absoft F77 for Linux (v3.4), optimized "-O"  ---  443 seconds
Portland Group (beta) F77,   optimized "-O4" ---  483
g77                                          ---  549 seconds
f2c/gcc (driver: fort77),    optimized "-O4" ---  581

results from Dr. Peter Burger (chburger@aci.unizh.ch)

Configuration: Dell XPS Pentium Pro 200n, 200 MHz, 96 MB RAM.
Linux 2.0.24 (SUSE (Slackware)).

Absoft F77 for Linux                              171 sec
Portland Group                                    198 sec
SNI F77 (Siemens)                                 210 sec (new)
g77-0-5-18                                        249 sec

results from Prof. Robert Gooding (bob@cezanne.phy.queensu.ca)

Configuration: Pentium Pro 200 MHz, 256k cache, 256 MB RAM, SCSI, RedHat 4.2.

f2c/gcc (driver: fort77) optimized "-O4"          249 sec
Absoft f77 (v3.4) optimized "-O"                  170 sec
Absoft f77 (v4.4) optimized -O -B100              193 sec
Absoft F90        optimized -O -B100              154 sec
egcs-1.0.1 (g77)  optimized -O                    259 sec

More results for Linux comparisons on Alpha:
     Alpha 21164-600MHz box with 1GB of RAM

g77 -O3 -funroll-loops -ffast-math (Linux/Alpha)  145 sec
f77 -O3                                            41 sec
     (DEC Fortran v3.6, statically linked on
      an OSF/1 machine, and then run on the
      Linux/Alpha box above)

For Comparison With Other "Proper" Unix Systems(!)

SparcUltra 170 (Sun Fortran 3.0.1, -O3)      ---  162 seconds

From Georgy Jikia (Universitaet Freiburg)
jikia@phyv4.physik.uni-freiburg.de
Dec Alpha 433 MHz (Digital Unix 4.0)

DEC  f77 -O:  53.92s user 0.17s system 98% cpu 54.681 total
GNU g77-O:  68.72s user 0.13s system 93% cpu 1:13.78 total
DEC  f90 -O:  17.02s user 0.13s system 99% cpu 17.293 total

Jeffrey Templon

Last modified: Wed Apr 22 12:02:04 EDT 1998