1 .TH sysdata 1 "atlc-4.5.0 28th Sep 2003" "Dr. David Kirkby"
4 \fBsysdata\fR - find basic hardware system data
9 After the \fBatlc\fR package is built, a small benchmark is run as part of the testing procedure. This benchmark
10 tries to get some information about the hardware. The program \fBsysdata\fR displays the same hardware information
11 that the benchmark will display, but runs in a fraction of a second, whereas the benchmark can take from 19 s
12 (quad 1.4 GHz Itainium 2 machine) to 14,906 s (for a very old 33.3 MHz Cray Y-MP). There are no options or
13 arguments to \fBsysdata\fR
15 The information gathered on hardware and software both developed by the same company (i.e. Solaris on Suns, AIX
16 on IBM RS/6000, IRIX on SGI, ... etc etc) is generally more informative than the free systems (Linux, NetBSD,
17 OpenBSD, FreeBSD) where it is usually impossible to get much hardware information.
19 Here are some examples of the use of \fBsysdata\fR on a number of systems. The large number of examples is for
20 my own use as much as anything, so I can keep track of the development of sysdata and see easily where it needs
21 extending. Examples are presented for:
24 1) Sun Ultra 80 running Solaris 9
26 2) HP C3000 running HP-UX 11
28 3) SGI Octane running IRIX 6.5.16
30 4) IBM RS/6000 running AIX 5.2
32 5) Dec Alpha 600a Personal Workstation running Tru64 5.1B
34 6) Cray Y-MP running UNICOS 9
36 7) Sun SPARCstation 20 running NetBSD 1.6
38 8) Sun SPARCstation 20 running OpenBSD 3.2
40 9) Sun SPARCstation 20 running Debian Linux
42 10) Sun SPARCstation 20 running Solaris 2.5
44 11) Generic PC with 350 MHz Pentium II running Redhat Linux 7.2
48 Here's the output from \fBsysdata\fR on these 11 systems.
51 \fBe.g. 1 (Sun Ultra 80 running Solaris 9)\fR
53 Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
55 Hardware platform: SUNW,Ultra-80
63 Version: Generic_112233-06
79 L1 data cache unknown kB
81 L1 instruction cache: unknown kB
85 Here's an example on a HP 9000 series Visualize C3000 workstation, fitted with one 400 MHz PA-RISC 8500 CPU and 1.5 Gb of RAM
87 \fBe.g. 2 (HP 9000 series Visualize C3000)\fR
91 Hardware platform: unknown
115 L1 data cache unknown kb
117 L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
122 Here's another example this time on an SGI Octane R10000 with 2 x 195 MHz processors. Note the CPU and FPU types
123 reported at not the R10000 and R10010 that are reported by SGI's hinv. \fBsysdata\fR is not meant to replace other
124 more sophisticated ways of obtaining system information (such as hinv on IRIX), but its data is useful to record for benchmarking purposes.
127 \fBe.g. 3 (SGI Octane R1000) \fR
129 Hardware provider: SGI
131 Hardware platform: unknown
143 #CPUs supported: unknown
157 L1 instruction cache: 32 kB
162 Here's an example using an IBM RS/6000 F50 with 4 x 332 MHz CPUs and 1 GB of RAM.
165 \fBe.g. 4 (IBM RS/6000 F50)\fR
167 Hardware provider: IBM
169 Hardware platform: unknown
171 Machine: 000245984C00
181 #CPUs supported: unknown
193 L1 data cache unknown kB
195 L1 instruction cache: unknown kB
200 And here's an example from a single 599 MHz processor Dec Alpha 600a Personal Workstation running Tru64 5.1B
203 \fBe.g. 5 (Dec Alpha 600a Personal Workstation)\fR
205 Hardware provider: unknown
207 Hardware platform: Digital_Personal_WorkStation_600au
217 Nodename: dobermann.localhost.ntlworld.co
223 CPU type: EV5.6_(21164A)
231 L1 data cache unknown kb
233 L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
238 Here's some data collected on a very old Cray Y-MP, which was introduced in 1991.
241 \fBe.g 6 (Cray Y-MP running UNICOS)\fR
244 Hardware provider: Cray
246 Hardware platform: Y-MP
258 #CPUs supported: unknown
270 L1 data cache unknown kb
272 L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
276 That is all the examples of commercial hardware running the operating systems made by the manufacturers of the
277 hardware. The following are free UNIX versions. In these cases the data gathered is never as complete. In
278 particular the amoumt of memory reported if often less than the real amount due to memory taken by the
279 operating system (kernel etc). The number of processors the system can support is never available.
281 Here's the first such non-commercial UNIX from a single processor Sun SPARCstation 20 running NetBSD 1.6.
284 \fBe.g. 7 (Sun SPARCstation 20 running NetBSD 1.6)\fR
286 Hardware provider: unknown
288 Hardware platform: unknown
296 Version: NetBSD_1.6_(GENERIC)_#0:_Mon_Sep__9_08:2sparc
300 #CPUs supported: unknown
304 CPU type: rg:/autobuild/sparc/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
312 L1 data cache unknown kb
314 L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
319 Here's data from a Sun SPARCstation 20 running OpenBSD 3.2. The machine has 320 Mb of RAM, not 318 Mb as
320 indicated. The number of processors the system supports is reported as unknown, but should the system have been
321 running Solaris 9, as in the example 1 (sparrow), then this information would have
322 been determined, but it is not available under OpenBSD - or Solaris 2.5 for that matter.
325 \fBe.g. 8 (Sun SPARCstation 20 running OpenBSD 3.2)\fR
327 Hardware provider: unknown
329 Hardware platform: unknown
339 Nodename: crow.crow.localdomain
341 #CPUs supported: unknown
353 L1 data cache unknown kb
355 L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
359 The next machine is a Sun SPARCstation 20 running Debian Linux. The version of Debian is unknown, but clearly
360 \fBsysdata\fR is unable to determine this.
363 \fBe.g. 9 (Sun SPARCstation 20 running Debian Linux)\fR
366 Hardware provider: unknown
368 Hardware platform: unknown
376 Version: #1_Fri_Nov_16_15:48:02_EST_2001
380 #CPUs supported: unknown
392 L1 data cache unknown kb
394 L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
398 Here's data from a Sun SPARCstation 20 running Solaris 2.5 (SunOS 5.5). The machine probably does have 352 Mb of RAM as
399 reported. The number of processors the system supports is reported as unknown, but should the system have been
400 running Solaris 9, as in the example 1 (sparrow), then this information would have been determined, but it is not available under Solaris 2.5.
403 \fBe.g. 10 (Sun SPARCstation 20 Solaris 2.5)\fR
405 Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
407 Hardware platform: SUNW,SPARCstation-20
419 #CPUs supported: unknown
431 L1 data cache unknown kb
433 L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
439 Here's a standard PC, fitted with one processor
442 \fBe.g. 11 (350 MHz Pentium II PC running Redhat Linux)\fR
444 Hardware provider: unknown
446 Hardware platform: unknown
454 Version: #1_Mon_Jun_10_15:31:48_EDT_2002
458 #CPUs supported: unknown
470 L1 data cache unknown kb
472 L1 instruction cache: unknown kb
478 sysdata does not read/write any files.
482 create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ(1)
484 create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect(1)
486 create_bmp_for_microstrip_coupler(1)
488 create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect(1)
490 create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect_coupler(1)
492 create_bmp_for_rect_in_circ(1)
494 create_bmp_for_rect_in_rect(1)
496 create_bmp_for_stripline_coupler(1)
498 create_bmp_for_symmetrical_stripline(1)
502 find_optimal_dimensions_for_microstrip_coupler(1)
504 hinv - SGI's IRIX only.
509 http://atlc.sourceforge.net - Home page
511 http://sourceforge.net/projects/atlc - Download area
513 atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/html-docs/index.html - HTML docs
515 atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/qex-december-1996/atlc.pdf - theory paper
517 atlc-X.Y.Z/examples - examples