- and even artists need some tools.
The BenchIT project is designed to provide the computational tools necessary to evaluate a given computer system successfully.

BenchIT is a freely available framework, for performance-measurements and analysis of UNIX based HPC systems. It does only rely on a POSIX compliant shell and a C-compiler, so you can run the core BenchIT on UNIX, Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Solaris. BenchIT enables you to do measurements on a wide variety of systems, as the BenchIT-Core contains all that is needed. However, for analysing and comparing your measurements, you can use these Webpages or the Java-driven BenchIT-GUI.

The BenchIT-GUI is a Java-driven front end for the actual core measurement system, allowing easy creation of measurements, local as well as remote through ssh, and comparisons between different results. To get an idea as to what the GUI enables you to do, have a look at these screenshots (and those located under the Resources - Screenshots tab).

plot your measurement results with a single click

create and manage remote hosts to run measurements on

easy to use built-in editor with syntax highlighting

compare your results with our online result database

You can download BenchIT under Resources, have a look at our Wiki or view all documents published by our team.

BenchIT-Web is your key to access thousands of measurement results done by our team and others. After registering, you can analyse your own results using our online Analysis/Plot section, compare and/or your results with those of other users, or simply browse and view the published results. If you encounter difficulties whilst using BenchIT, our Wiki and our BugTracker would be the first addresses, allowing you to report bugs found or request features.

If you are involved in performance evaluation, don't wait any longer, get yourself an account, and start browsing the published results.