I'm trying to benchmark a wide range of CPU's for some work I'm doing for some research and wondered if anyone fancied helping me out by running the following benchmark test?

Either method will help me out.

Single Core Test
First way - download and run the single core model - this allows me to see how each individual core performs on it's own. Easiest way to do this is to download the ZIP file I created here. This downloads the 64 Bit and 32 bit program and the test file with batch files. Just run the batch file for the operating system you have (64 or 32 bit). The test will jump to 100% CPU on one core and take about 5-10 minutes to run. When run, can you send me the bench1.out file and a screen shot of your computer performance from Control Panel (or just send the details of the PC - need Windows OS, amount of RAM, CPU name (exact) and clock speed) to ChrisSalter@hoarelea.com. You can then delete the folder (nothing is installed).

Current time to beat is a mates i7 @ 4.9GHz (!) - completed the test in 144 seconds.

Multi Core Test
Secondly, if you want to take part in the multicore test, it's a bit more involved and will require the installation of an additional program. This test will use all cores on you machine and will take 30-120 minutes so only undertake this one if you don't mind running your PC at 100% on all cores for this amount of time.

If you know how to run MPI programs and can already, then feel free to do it that way by using the program here. Alternatively, if you have no idea what that means, you need to download Pyrosim.

Download and install Pyrosim from here
When it starts up, it'll ask for a license - use the code
Code:
4F95 D4D9 7A94 4872 4509 04
to have 30 days free trial.
Download the Zip file as above


Click the button highlighted in red and select the file scale1.fds
Click the arrow on the button highlighted in blue and select the Run FDS parallell button and wait for the model to finish.
Like the single core test, I need the scale1.out file and the PC specs.

I'm sorely interested to see what AMD chips do on it as everyone seems to have Intel these days and I have an inkling that the 8 core AMD chip might actually outperform the flagship Intel based on the method of programming for the mutlicore functionality.

If you want to view the current results, you can view the Google Spreadsheet here.