Explanation
HINT can predict the performance of other benchmarks with high
accuracy. In most cases the correlation was found to be higher than
0.995 with monotone ranking. Most of the fixed size parallel and serial
benchmarks, like LINPACK, NAS, SPEC, are found to be sample points
of the generic HINT curve. The small problem size benchmarks
like Fhourstone, Whetstone, correlate well with the left side of
HINT curve indicating, low memory bandwidth and computation requirements.
Benchmark like STREAM and SPECfp correlates well with the right side of
the HINT curve indicating high traffic on the memory bus and large
problem size.
