The JouleSort Benchmark

JouleSort is a system-level benchmark for energy efficiency that is useful across many types of systems. It is an extension of the sort benchmark, which is used to measure the performance and cost-performance of computer systems.

The following paper introduces the JouleSort benchmark:
"JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark," Suzanne Rivoire, Mehul A. Shah, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Christos Kozyrakis, Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Beijing, China, June 2007.

JouleSort Benchmark Winners

 

Daytona

Indy

10 GB
(100M recs)

    

100 GB
(1B recs)

CoolSort


(2007) 11,324 records sorted per Joule
Time 880.8 sec
Avg. Power 100.0 W
Total Energy 88.1 kJ
System Description Mobile Intel Core 2 Duo CPU; 13 SATA laptop drives
Linux, NSort
Team Suzanne Rivoire (Stanford)
Mehul A. Shah (HP Labs)
Partha Ranganathan (HP Labs)
Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford)
 

1 TB
(10B recs)

    

For the winners of the other sort benchmarks, visit the Sort Benchmark homepage. For questions about JouleSort or contest entries, contact Mehul Shah.