Beat the (Linpack) Benchmark!
Mathematical Programming with Python
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/classes/...
python_2025/benchmark/benchmark.html

benchmark: the problem of benchmarking computer performance; the Linpack benchmark; scipy.linalg.solve challenges Linpack to a race.

Lecture notes:

• benchmark.pdf

Versions of the Linpack benchmark:

• linpack_bench.c
• linpack_bench.m
• linpack_bench.py
• linpack_bench.ipynb, iPython notebook created by p2j.

Use scipy.linalg.solve() on the benchmark problem:

• linalg_solve_bench.py
• linalg_solve_bench.ipynb, iPython notebook created by p2j.

Call both benchmark codes with an increasing range of n; tabulate and plot the MegaFLOPS rates.

• vary_n.py
• vary_n.ipynb, iPython notebook created by p2j.