A few benchmarks for the Nanonote
nebajoth
nebajoth at gmail.com
Tue May 4 17:58:03 EDT 2010
Rockin' infoz, dude. Thanks for sharing.
On 05/04/2010 05:07 PM, Delbert Franz wrote:
> Here are a few benchmarks of the Nanonote comparing it to:
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> 1. Acer Aspire One- Intel Atom at 1.6 GHz and 1 GB RAM.
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> 2. Gecko Edubook from:
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> http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html
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> using an Xcore86 at 1 GHz, a rebrand of the Vortex86MX:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86.
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> It is in a class similar to a Pentium 200.
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> The following are all written in Lua and with Lua compiled to
> use double-precision floating point.
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> A. Simple prime number sieve computing the number of primes
> <= 1,000,000. Times in seconds.
>
> Ben Gecko Acer
> ----- ----- -----
> 11.2 7.4 1.8
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> B. Rough translation of N. Tajima's INTPI3.F:
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> http://serv.apphy.fukui-u.ac.jp/~tajima/bench/intpi3.f
>
> Lua does not use integers but I used the math.floor
> function to force divides to produce an "integer".
> The output of the Fortran program and the Lua script agreed.
>
> This was run with n=250 so that a single-precision Lua
> would give the correct result (single-precision outcomes
> appear below). Times in seconds.
>
> Ben Gecko Acer
> ----- ----- -----
> 25.5 7.5 1.9
>
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> C. A quick and dirty recursive adaptive routine loosely
> based on an F program:
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> http://www.fortran.com/F/ex_integrate.html
>
> It took quite some doing to find a function to integrate
> that would give a large enough time on the Acer to be
> reliable and yet not result in stack overflow on the
> Ben:) Times in seconds. Convergence tolerance
> set at 1 x 10^(-6), again, so that single-precision
> would work:)
>
> Ben Gecko Acer
> ----- ----- -----
> 22.1 1.3 0.38
>
>
> D. Single-precision results for the Ben for each test:
> (Double-precision results shown again for quick comparison.)
>
> Precision Test A Test B Test C
> -------- ----- ----- -----
> Single 9,9 17.2 20.9
> Double 11.2 25.5 22.1
>
> Comments on number crunching:
>
> 1. Given the power used by the Ben it does quite well. It is
> quite a bit slower than the others but then its size and
> power requirements are also much smaller. The Gecko uses
> about 5 watts at full load, the Acer probably several
> times that, and I have no measurements for the Ben but
> given the battery life I have found, it has to be
> much less than 1 watt, especially when the screen is blank.
> The simple-minded, low-order, adaptive integration routine
> on the Ben would often finish in 1 second or less for
> a wide range of test integrals. The one I used for the
> benchmark was forced to be extreme in order to get
> a reliable time on the Acer One.
>
> 2. Using double precision for Lua only increases the
> compute times by a modest amount. The storage space
> available is reduced to one-half the single-precision
> value. For example, I could run the single precision
> version of the sieve to 2,000,000 before I got
> an out of memory failure.
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> E. I/O speed via network to and from the Ben. Connected
> using a Debian variant of process taken from here:
>
> http://en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2010-March/000127.html
>
> I used scp for the transfer and each one involved binary data
> with multiple large files. These were *.ogg files I have
> on the Ben. I am booting from the a microSD card. It is
> a Transcend 8 GB Class 6 card that retails for about $20 US.
> The data is stored on one of the partitions on that card.
>
> Write speed: 450 KB/sec
> Read speed: 725 KB/sec
>
> The Ben was hosted on the Acer One netbook and the transfer was
> to or from an Intel i7.
>
> All in all I find the results quite pleasing:)
>
> Delbert
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