[ale] HPC Node Test Util or Suite

[vernard at venger.net (Vernard Martin)]

Greg Clifton wrote:
> Hey ALErs,
>
> We have a few 1U Dual Xeon HPC nodes going to a National Lab soon and 
> I was wanting to give them a good exercise to see what kind of CPU 
> temps we'll get when they're running flat out. I'm not sure what 
> flavor of Linux the lab runs, but I was thinking of tossing on Rocks. 
> Any suggestions on what to use to put a pair of E-5620 Quad Core CPUs 
> w/ 48GB of RAM through a stress test?
Try "Breakin" by Advanced Clustering. It will exercise all of your cores 
and RAM no the machine to nearly full capacity.

http://www.advancedclustering.com/software/breakin.html


hope this helps

Vernard