SPEC CPU2006 on Azure

Question

I am wondering can I run SPEC CPU2006  on Azure?

SPEC CPU2006  is a benchmark which designed to provide performance measurements that can be used to compare compute-intensive workloads on different computer systems. It is implemented with c++.

http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/readme1st.html

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Shaghayegh

Answer 1

Are you planning to use it on Azure IaaS VMs? If so I believe you can use it without any problem

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Answer 2

yes.

I am a newbie  in Azure IaaS VMs and  have never deployed any c++ application on Azure.

Would you please let me know of  any sample or tutorials that I can use. 

I will appreciate any help.

 

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Shaghayegh

Answer 3

Hi,

Azure IaaS is infrastrcuture as service. It is very similar to Hyper-V VMs that you create on premise. Azure provides cloud based Hyper-V environment where you can create you own VMs, virtual networks and extend those networks to talk to on premise resources etc... Currently it supports windows and linux based OS.

Once you create your VM, you can use it as you are use it on your own environment (on premise).

PaaS is another capability on cloud where you can build your .net, php kind of applications where servers are managed by MS and you only worry about your application logic. You can use SQL Azure for datastore where sql server is offered as service.

Azure web sites is another feature, you can use it like you buy space from any ISV to host your web sites. You can use this feature for most of the well known technoligies like php, .net, java.

For Azure VMs using IaaS, you can take a look at this link. Check the links windows virtual machines, linux virtual machines.

For virtual network related click on Networking.

Hope it helps. Please let me know for any specific questions.

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