HPCG, http://hpcg-benchmark.org, is a new metric for ranking HPC (high performance computing) systems. HPCG is intended as a complement to the High Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark, currently used to rank the TOP500 computing systems. Current software is only for NVIDIA GPUs.

LINPACK is the historical benchmark for supercomputers. Intel provides pre-compiled binaries for macOS,https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-benchmarks-suite.

With the power of Mac’s increasing, it would be interesting to analyse the performance. The scalability of HPCG benchmark using MapReduce implementation using fine grained parallelism on Hadoop cluster is worth to work upon.