ABSTRACT
It is now ‘do-it-yourself’ time. This chapter introduces you to the idea of benchmarking HPC hardware. It then briefly describes the so-termed social science benchmark and then invites you to download the source code from a web site. This code will run on virtually any hardware ranging from a PC to a Unix workstation to the world’s fastest parallel supercomputer. Having read this book, you should be able to understand most of the source code. You may even be possessed of sufficient curiosity to try it out. The next step after that is to move on to writing your own parallel programming software all by yourself.
