Month: October 2013

Using Perl and Graphviz to simplify your busy life

We all have to create topology diagrams, high level visual representations of our thoughts or environments (or software solutions etc) from time to time, for as they say – “A picture is worth a thousand words”. The Graphviz software (http://www.graphviz.org/) provides us a simple and elegant way to do so, which with a little bit …

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STREAM(like) benchmark, Solaris and the SPARC T4 processor

About the STREAM benchmark http://blogs.utexas.edu/jdm4372/tag/stream-benchmark/ Here’s what the author has to say about the benchmark itself — What is STREAM? The STREAM benchmark is a simple synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth (in MB/s) and the corresponding computation rate for simple vector kernels. /*———————————————————————–*/ /* Program: Stream */ /* Revision: $Id: stream.c,v 5.9 2009/04/11 …

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