Excel 2007 Add-In for High Performance Linpack and Windows HPC Server 2008
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The TOP500 project ranks and describes the 500 most powerful publicly-known computer systems in the world. Rankings are based on High-Performance LINPACK (HPL), a portable implementation of the LINPACK benchmark for distributed-memory computers. HPL measure the performance of a cluster, and provides a good "burn-in" run for new clusters.
Learn how to run HPL on your Windows HPC Server 2008-based cluster through the step-by-step guidance provided in the "Running HPL on Windows HPC Server 2008" white paper. After introducing HPL and delving into the main HPL input parameters, the white paper presents a tool that helps simplify the benchmarking: the Microsoft Office Excel workbook companion. The workbook companion contains two worksheets to help size and manage the HPL jobs: the sizing spreadsheet and the LINPACK spreadsheet. Learn to size, run, and optimize HPL on your cluster by following the detailed instructions in this paper.
