Until a couple of years ago, when we referred to performance measurement of an application, we meant the amount of time that it took the job to run vs. the specific resources it used - number of cores, number of servers if you are using a cluster, the specific characteristics of the server cores and...
Now that we have configured the hardware components and firmware settings in a known and hopefully optimum way, it is time to run the 1 st performance test. Personally, I like to run the memory bandwidth benchmark lmbench first, since there is a lot to learn from it. This benchmark computes the time...