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FIRESTARTER - Processor stress test utility
- Description:
FIRESTARTER is a handy utility for infrastructure specialists, thermal
engineers, system administrators, and computer scientists that aims at
creating near-peak power consumption on standard compute nodes. It can
be used for tests of cooling and power infrastructures, system
stability test, or as a maximum power consumption baseline for
application energy efficiency studies.
While in different research areas tools such as LINPACK and Prime95
are commonly used, these tools are just highly optimized and compute
intense routines that solve specific computational problems. As stress
test utilities they are unnecessarily hard to use and in many cases
unreliable in terms of power consumption maximization. FIRESTARTER is
a simple yet versatile Open Source tool that reliably exceeds the
power consumption of other stress tests and creates very steady power
consumption patterns.
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