AMD and SiSoftware creating Sandra2010 OpenCL Benchmark Suite

SiSoftware has just recently announced the availability of it’s first OpenCL GPGPU Benchmarks as part of Sandra 2010, and now AMD has announced that they’ll be supporting it as a global OpenCL Benchmark package.  Such common benchmark suites are popular in the HPC arena as a way to benchmark common performance characteristics in suites like Linpack.  Some of the features in Sandra2010 include:

• 4 architectures natively supported (x86, x64/AMD64/EM64T, IA64/Itanium2, ARM)
• 6 languages supported (English, French3, German3, Italian3, Japanese3, Russian3)
• AMD OpenCL 1.01
• nVidia OpenCL 1.0
• GPU + CPU parallel execution supported, up to 8 devices in total.
• Different models of GPUs supported, including integrated GPU + dedicated GPUs.
• Multi-GPUs supported, up to 8 in parallel.

The package is available in several versions with varying feature sets, ranging from a free “Lite” Version to a full “Enterprise” edition.

SiSoftware Zone Sandra2010 Announcement, via AMD Press Release

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .