Pure Julia HINT benchmark

Back in the day John Gustafson and friends invented a really great benchmark called HINT (Hierarchical INTegration).

It measures quality improvements per second (quips) as a function of memory used… So produces a curve of quips vs size.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130724124556/http://hint.byu.edu/

Originally this was hosted at iastate.edu anyway the C code is available.

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~farrell/cc11/reference/hint/

It’s really not a complicated program and I think would be pretty easy for someone to write a pure Julia version of. I know you code golfers and benchmark people are just itching to make stuff run fast. Perhaps someone wants to do this rewrite? It truly was a great benchmark design.

Note: multi threaded and clustered versions also worthwhile to think about!

Note, the wiki article also links to the original paper which is worth reading

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