Toward a new linpack-like benchmark for heterogeneous computing resources

Summary This work describes some first efforts to design a new Linpack-like benchmark useful to evaluate the performance of Heterogeneous Computing Resources. The benchmark is based on the Schur Complement reformulation of the solution of a linear equation system. Details about its implementation and evaluation, mainly in terms of performance scalability, are presented for a computing environment based on multi NVIDIA GP-GPUs nodes connected by an Infiniband network.