>>I am looking at Linux, but I first have to get familiar enough with it to actually
>>do something. I play around with linux on another system first, then do benchmarking...
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>>What good latency measuring benchmarks are there?
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>>DK
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>Sciencemark 2.0 should be be able to give you latency numbers, for all levels of cache, including ram.
>It is also multi-threaded (although how much so i do not know)
>Also the comparison of numbers from the current system to >the Bensley system would be interesting.

Sciencemark's memory benchmark doesn't work well for some of the later CPUs. It also isn't very scalable (in terms of handling multiple CPUs).

It is good for technical computing with 1-2 threads, but we have four with Bensley.

DK