Benchmarking Package

This package contains functions for measuring the performance of the Wolfram System on your computer and for producing a comparison report that includes benchmark results for other computers. The WolframMark benchmark, a collection of typical numeric and symbolic computations, is used for evaluating the performance of the computer system on which the Wolfram System is run.

The overall WolframMark result is computed as the geometric mean of the reciprocal of individual timings, normalized with respect to a reference system. The timings for the individual computations are measured with AbsoluteTiming[], which returns wall-clock time. Users are encouraged to minimize CPU usage by other processes during execution. Running the WolframMark benchmark takes about nine seconds on a 3.40 GHz Intel i7 processor and requires 512 MB of free memory.

BenchmarkReport[] runs the WolframMark benchmark and produces a notebook report that compares the performance of your computer with results from several known systems. If no front end is available, a plain text version of the report is returned.

Generating a benchmark report.

Benchmark[] runs the WolframMark benchmark and returns the results as raw data. This package includes a collection of benchmark results for a variety of systems as given in $BenchmarkSystems.

Benchmark utilities.

You can create a customized comparison report using BenchmarkReport[] by specifying computer systems from $BenchmarkSystems and raw benchmark data as returned by Benchmark[].

Produce a customized notebook report.