LinX - A simple Linpack interface

[Dua|ist]

Thank you guys for your support.

Bad news is, I don't have enough time right now to continue coding (it's really getting hard here in my university at the end of term).

But good news is that I've found a way to set the number of threads for Linpack to use. That's something like what koda has suggested. I'm not sure if I can make the affinity to be set from within LinX, but right now it is possible to make Linpack use less threads than the number of cores of a CPU (running it in just one thread works well on my rig). When running only on one core the affinity can be set from within Task Manager I think.

Higher values can be set too, but on my dual-core E8500 I haven't found any difference in performance or whatever with number of threads set to anything higher than 2, so not sure about this. It will be interesting to try and set this value to 8 for a Core i7 system though. It just can't be that easy to force Linpack load all 8 cores in one instance, but who knows? Maybe it is. I'll upload this version as soon as I have some time to finish it and "polish" some things. You'll have to be patient.

[koda]

You're great mate !

Well, i'm not sure you can set affinity on each core but :
If you click on start with an option limited to one thread ... we will have a new process ... something like linpack32_xeon32.exe (can't remember the exact name) ... then just set affinity to it.

Then do the same again for a second LinX with his linpack process and affinity to another core ... and so on

When one crash ... just look each core in task manager

Take your time ... you tool is great ... we will be patient !

Thank you guys for your support.

Bad news is, I don't have enough time right now to continue coding (it's really getting hard here in my university at the end of term).

But good news is that I've found a way to set the number of threads for Linpack to use. That's something like what koda has suggested. I'm not sure if I can make the affinity to be set from within LinX, but right now it is possible to make Linpack use less threads than the number of cores of a CPU (running it in just one thread works well on my rig). When running only on one core the affinity can be set from within Task Manager I think.

Higher values can be set too, but on my dual-core E8500 I haven't found any difference in performance or whatever with number of threads set to anything higher than 2, so not sure about this. It will be interesting to try and set this value to 8 for a Core i7 system though. It just can't be that easy to force Linpack load all 8 cores in one instance, but who knows? Maybe it is. I'll upload this version as soon as I have some time to finish it and "polish" some things. You'll have to be patient.