Title: Document RUN.txt
Subject: Running SPEC CPU95 For Unix/Windows NT on your system
Summary
Running SPEC CPU95 on your system follows the following basic
steps:
- Installing SPEC on your system
- Preparing your system
- Understanding the SPEC CPU95 directory structure
- Running SPEC CPU95: Configuration files and runspec
For each of these steps, detailed directions are given below. The directions are for UNIX systems and hold true for Windows NT systems with minor variations like using "\" as the path separator. Steps which are not needed or different for Windows NT
are clearly marked as:
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* Windows NT Note: *
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or by a brief note in parenthesis.
Note that while SPEC has tried to make the process as easy and as
portable as possible, configurations and issues may arise that the
tools may not be able to handle. Please try to work through the
situation and, if needed, contact SPEC technical support.
Installing SPEC CPU95 on your system
The details on installing SPEC CPU95 are included in INSTALL.txt.
Preparing your system
SPEC CPU95 is designed to provide a comparative measure of compute
intensive performance; this emphasizes the processor, memory hierarchy
and compiler on your system. Designing for current and future processor
configurations, SPEC assumes that you have at least 64MB of RAM
on your system. If you have less than this amount of memory in your
system, the benchmarks can begin to page which will slow your system and
introduce I/O as an effect on your compute intense performance.
You may need to configure the operating system appropriately:
- You may want to shutdown unnecessary processes or services (for ex...
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