It's Easy Running Benchmarks On ARM Single Board Computers

Written by Michael Larabel in Arm on 4 August 2015 at 06:48 PM EDT. Add A Comment
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A few days back I shared some benchmarks of Sparkfun's pcDuino Acadia with a video made by Sparkfun. They've also now produced a tutorial for carrying out ARM single board computer benchmarks.

Of course, at the center of this tutorial is the Phoronix Test Suite for carrying out standardized, fully-automated benchmarks from start to finish. If you've never tried our open-source benchmarking software, you should check it out as it's very trivial to deploy.

You can see Sparkfun's tutorial on running ARM SBC benchmarks via this web-page. It's nice documentation to get started on some of the Phoronix Test Suite basics if you're unfamiliar, regardless of whether you're using ARM, x86, SPARC, PowerPC, or any alternative architectures. Our software works also not only on Linux but BSD, Solaris, OS X, and limited support for Windows. The only part Sparkfun missed out on is there's integrated power monitoring support within the Phoronix Test Suite, but I'm already in contact with them to explain that feature via the Phoronix Test Suite's system_monitor module. Easy way to explore that: set the MONITOR=all environment variable prior to running any benchmarks.

If you're new to Linux benchmarking, tieing into the Phoronix Test Suite is OpenBenchmarking.org as our collaborative results platform and Phoromatic as our centralized test orchestration and control software for managing multiple systems simultaneously, etc. Commercial support and custom engineering is available by contacting us.
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