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This is an ANSI C version of the SciMark2 benchmark, translated from the original Java sources. The intent in making this benchmark available in C is mainly for performance comparisons.

Version 4.0 of the software has added check-sum counters to adequately test newer optimizing compilers.

Version 5.0 will provide option for single and double precision benchmarks.

Results of this benchmark can be sent to pozo@nist.gov.

The program is split up into the main driver (scimark2.c) and kernel routines. A sample makefile is included; however, one could simply write

> cc -o scimark2  -O *.c

> scimark2

**                                                              **
** SciMark2 Numeric Benchmark, see http://math.nist.gov/scimark **
** for details. (Results can be submitted to pozo@nist.gov)     **
**                                                              **
Using       2.00 seconds min time per kenel.
Composite Score:           65.56
FFT             Mflops:    63.38    (N=1024)
SOR             Mflops:   124.80    (100 x 100)
MonteCarlo:     Mflops:    16.05
Sparse matmult  Mflops:    59.15    (N=1000, nz=5000)
LU              Mflops:    64.40    (M=100, N=100)
0:29.62 Elapsed, 29.620 user sec, 0.010 sys sec, 100.0% utilization.

The first SciMark number reported is the composite score, followed by the an approximate Mflop rate for each kernel.

To run the "large" version of this benchmark (with data structures that typically do not fit in cache) use

>scimark2 -large

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