HABU equivalent

The HABU equivalent is a unit of measurement used by United States Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program to evaluate the performance of large computers systems.

"The [HPCMP method for measuring system performance] is as follows: the ratio of time [for a given benchmark application] at a target processor count provides a relative measure of the system's performance on that application test case compared with the DoD standard system, stated in Habu-equivalents. Habu, the first DoD standard system, is an IBM POWER3 formerly located at the US Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center. One Habu-equivalent is the performance of 1,024 system-under-study processors compared with 1,024 Habu processors.[1]

References
  1. Larry P. Davis, Cray J. Henry, Roy L. Campbell Jr, William A. Ward. High Performance Computing Acquisitions Based on the Factors that Matter. Computing in Science & Engineering. IEEE Computer Society / American Institute of Physics. November/December 2007
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