System Performance for HPVM

The High Performance Virtual Machine (HPVM 1.0) is a high performance clustering system for PC's developed by the Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (CSAG) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Because the PC hardware marketplace includes many vendors, designs, configurations, and even firmware settings, performance to the memory and input/output system can vary widely. As a service to users of our software, we have tested the following systems for input/output subsystem performance and memory system performance. The tests are by no means comprehensive evaluations of the systems.

We will updating this list as we test additional systems. Of course, we cannot test all systems, so if HPVM users, like you, would like to report test results, please let us know. To vendors, if you would like to donate two systems for testing, please let us know. All the inputs and suggestions to improve this page and the accuracy of reporting are welcome. Contact us through webmaster.


SYSTEM BANDWIDTH TESTS AND FM PERFORMANCE TESTS RESULTS

System Aggregate Sustainable Memory Bandwidth* (MB/S) Single-CPU Sustainable Memory Bandwidth* (MB/S) DMA Peak Bandwidth**(MB/S) PIO Peak Bandwidth**(MB/S) FM
Maximum_Bandwidth*** (MB/S)		 FM Minimum_Latency*** (us/Msg) N1/2(Bytes)***
HEWLETT-PACKARD Kayak XU
(Test Date:12-31-97)
write read copy
208.1 150.9 112.5
write read copy
159.2 91.6 108.4
DMA-Out DMA-In
120.9 122.5
PIO-Out PIO-In
132.2 10.6
92.23
(Test Date:03-23-98)		 9.48
(Test Date:03-23-98)		 330
HEWLETT-PACKARD Kayak XU
(Test Date:10-21-97)
write read copy
159.4 91.7 100.3
DMA-Out DMA-In
121.0 122.4
PIO-Out PIO-In
132.1 10.5
91.46 10.25 320
COMPAQ Professional Workstation 8000
(Test Date:10-10-97)
write read copy
188.4 230.4 112.4
write read copy
173.6 112.3 101.2
DMA-Out DMA-In
120.2 111.9
PIO-Out PIO-In
37.0 9.3
DELL
Workstation 400
(Test Date:10-10-97)
write read copy
80.1 144.0 52.5
write read copy
77.2 105.3 51.0
DMA-Out DMA-In
119.8 121.6
PIO-Out PIO-In
92.1 9.4
HEWLETT-PACKARD NetServer LX Pro
(Test Date:10-10-97)
write read copy
123.3 164.6 66.1
write read copy
116.8 115.5 68.2
DMA-Out DMA-In
112.3 119.6
PIO-Out PIO-In
124.1 10.1
SAG
Workstation
(Test Date:09-10-97)
write read copy
69.7 109.0 42.9
write read copy
74.6 110.2 43.5
DMA-Out DMA-In
114.1 122.5
PIO-Out PIO-In
92.8 14.4
DELL
Optiplex Gxpro 200
(Test_Date:09-08-97)
write read copy
83.4 100.3 55.3
DMA-Out DMA-In
109.0 127.2
PIO-Out PIO-In
92.0 15.2
HEWLETT-PACKARD Vectra XU
(Test Date:09-08-97)
write read copy
95.6 157.3 56.2
write read copy
94.2 116.6 51.2
DMA-Out DMA-In
113.3 27.7
PIO-Out PIO-In
75.7 11.5
MICRON
Millennia Pro2
(Test Date:09-08-97)
write read copy
90.7 153.3 58.2
write read copy
95.5 88.4 59.8
DMA-Out DMA-In
120.9 127.1
PIO-Out PIO-In
92.2 17.5
77.09 11.12 500

* The memory bandwidth test code is written by the Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (CSAG). The source code is available.
** The test code for DMA and PIO bandwidth is "hswap" written by Myricom, Inc.
*** The FM testing codes can be got from High Performance Virtual Machine (HPVM) 1.0 release by Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (CSAG).

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Last updated October 1997
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