pts is a operating system. The pts has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.
wartest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
RAMtest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
postest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
NASAtest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
convvideotest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
craftest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
cachetest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
crtest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
BPEtest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
BYTEtest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
apachetest - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
aiostress - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
7zip - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i5-2310, ATI Device 6738, MSI H77MA-G43
lalalala - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, InnoTek VirtualBox, Oracle VirtualBox
PTS 4.4.1 Arrives, Benchmark Windows 8 vs. Ubuntu: Succeeding last month's release of Phoronix Test Suite 4.4, the first point release to "Forsand" has been made available. There's minor improvements and fixes throughout along with some notable work on the Microsoft Windows side...
Auto-Driving Benchmarks With PTS 4.2 Milestone 2: A new release of the Phoronix Test Suite 4.2-Randaberg development code integrates auto-driven benchmark capabilities via new OpenBenchmarking.org capabilities...
Ubuntu Prompts For Donations When Downloading: Just a few weeks after Canonical integrated Amazon product results into Unity's Dash in an effort to generate more money through affiliate/referral revenue, they have taken another step today to try to increase their cash flow...
Test Automation With PTS, OpenBenchmarking.org: Tonight at the Ubuntu Developer Summit I'm talking about the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org. Here's some of my notes for those unable to make it or were able to attend but would like additional information...
PTS4-Suldal Milestone 1 Packs Exciting Features: The first development release of Phoronix Test Suite 4.0-Suldal is now available. There's some exciting features met in this first milestone that will please those using this open-source automated testing infrastructure if you're using it for benchmarking or if you're just a Phoronix.com reader of our many published benchmark results...
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Gallium3D Attempts To Compete With Catalyst: Open-source code supporting the AMD Radeon HD 6000 "Northern Islands" GPU hardware has been available since January, but only in the past few days has this Linux code matured to the point of being stable and useful for testing. In this article are our first benchmarks of the AMD Northern Islands and Cayman graphics processors using the open-source Mesa Gallium3D driver and comparing its performance to AMD's proprietary Catalyst driver.
PTS3 Iveland Development Update: For those interested in the development activity of Phoronix Test Suite 3.0 "Iveland", here's an update as to the progress with a few notes...
PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 Released: After releasing Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 earlier this month and delivering the subsequent 2.4.1 update, we have now released PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 "Anzhofen" to the public. PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 makes it extremely easy to benchmark your computer on a completely standardized software stack from a Live DVD/USB environment.
Five Stages of Benchmark Loss: PTS and You: As a reminder, this weekend is the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) that is being held in Los Angeles, California. This three day affair that's sponsored by the likes of Google and IBM has a wide array of talks, including one of our own. As the last talk on Saturday for Track C prior to the day's evening reception is a presentation by Matthew Tippett (the former ATI Linux manager) and myself entitled "Five Stages of Benchmark Loss: PTS and You."..
Four Days And There's A New PTS Lenvik Beta: I had intended for Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 Beta 2 to be the last development build for this release codenamed Lenvik, but things have changed. After continuing to do intensive, last minute work on Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 since the Lenvik Beta 2 release four days ago, a third beta has been warranted...
The Grinch That Stole PTS Desktop Live 2009.4: While the plan was to release PTS Desktop Live 2009.4, the quarterly update to our Linux-based benchmarking operating system from a Live DVD/USB environment, shortly after the release of Phoronix Test Suite 2.2, this has not happened and it is not going to happen.
AMD R600/700 DRM Interrupts Support Pushed: One of the underlying features that has been lacking from the ATI R600/700 DRM / kernel mode-setting driver on Linux has been support for interrupts, which is needed for the sync-to-vblank operation and other important areas. Interrupts support has been lacking since AMD has not yet published any documentation concerning them for the Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series ASICs, but today their code has cleared the legal review process for publishing.