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Open Source OS Benchmarking Competition

Posted by timothy on from the make-it-squeal-like-a-pig dept.

BenchmarkingFreak writes "OSnews is running a story about a new benchmarking competition: OSU Open Source Lab wanted to take the concept of benchmarking a little bit further with the Beaver Challenge 2004. In this competition they will be allowing a community of experts in each OS to tweak their configurations to ensure maximum performance. And they are running it all on wicked machines, just imagine... well you know."

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  1. What wil they be benchmarking? by MysteriousMystery · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will they be benchmarking database performance, GCC compiling speed, I took at look at the methodology page and it wasn't particularly specific.

  2. Why not include Windows and perhaps others? by enosys · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not include Windows and perhaps others? I guess they wouldn't include non-open-source ones because it's a site about open source but I'd love to see the comparison. Have any other sites done that?

  3. Hyper Threading by SunBug · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will they let you tweak Hyper Threading?

    It'll be interesting to see how many people turn Hyper Threading OFF when doing some tests. I found that my database was 212% FASTER for read operations after I turned Hyper Threading off on the 2650.