After much too long a delay, version 5.10 of the STREAM benchmark has been released (at least in the C language version). Although version 5.10 of the benchmark still measures exactly the same thing as previous versions, a number of long-awaited features have finally been integrated. Updated Validation Code Array… read more
Archives for January 2013
Counting binary vs decimal powers in the STREAM benchmark
A question came up recently about my choice of definitions for “MB” used in the computation of memory bandwidth (in “MB/s”) in the STREAM benchmark. According to this reference from NIST, the convention is: Binary Powers Value abbreviation full name 2^10 1,024 KiB kibibyte 2^20 1,048,576 MiB mebibyte 2^30 1,073,741,824… read more