Often, to calculate the performance of a processor you rely on specific programs, but they have a "defect" do not give a unique value that is independent of platform and operating system used.
Fortunately, if we compare the sheer computing power of a CPU, regardless of imaginative conversion tables, we can come in against a simple program that calculates the PI Greek .
Super PI is the name of the program that calculates the decimal digits of pi greek, indicating the time it takes for the computer. It 'a good indicator of CPU performance and RAM.
And 'the most popular benchmark for cpu always, a program that creates dependence overclock! Usually the "yardstick" is the calculation of one million decimal places.
Unfortunately the program is a bit 'dated and does not allow parallelization processing across multiple cores, then a quad core will be used only a single core.
With this program have calculated the largest number of decimal places, equivalent to over six billion in 1995.
For saprene more www.super-computing.org/ .
Currently the record is held by Yasumasa Kanada, who calculated the beauty of 1,241,100,000,000 digits (1.2 billion) calculated in more than 600 hours using 64 computers SR8000/MPP Hitachi.
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This post was written by admin on May 4, 2009