Elpida

Elpida is a simple CPU/Algorithm benchmarking library, aimed to be as transparent and as accurate as can be. Elpida is under development.

Contents

• Dependencies
• Build for Windows 7+ (For simple users)
• Build for Windows 7+ (For advanced users)
• Build for Linux (Debian Based, Fedora)

Dependencies

To be able to build elpida from sources you will need a small build system consisted of:

• Cmake
• GCC for C++ that support c++17 and c++17 filesystem (gcc 9.3+)
• Qt5 For the GUI frontend.
• hwloc For core Elpida functionality

The following dependencies are submodules and are built together with Elpida so you don't have to bother installing them, I just mention them:

• zlib For the bundled Image Benchmarks
• libpng For the bundled Image Benchmarks

On Windows, Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora these dependencies are covered by the build scripts, so you will not probably need to manually install them.

Build for Windows 7+ (For simple users)

Currently on windows is only tested on with MSYS2 building platform. To be able to build it, I provided some scripts that download and creates the build environment required to build elpida. If you already have a MSYS2 installation on your system, you can go to Build for Windows 7+ (For advanced users)

Requirements:

• Internet connection (the script will download 300+ MB of data)
• 2GB+ of hard disk space

The script will setup the environment in the folder you want. It will not install anything system-wise. When not needing anymore delete the folders it created.

To bootstrap the process do the following:

1. Copy all files/folders from scripts/MSYS2 to where you want to setup the environment.
2. Run the bootstrap.bat script. It will take some time until it finishes.

Once it is finished, press any key to close the command line. From now on you will not have to run bootstrap.bat again.

• To run Elpida, run runElpida.bat
• To rebuild Elpida, run rebuildElpida.bat
• To update Elpida's sources from repository, run updateElpida.bat then rebuildElpida.bat

Build for Windows 7+ (For advanced users)

This is for programmers or advanced users that have MSYS2 installed on the system. You will need to install these packages from the MSYS command line:

• If you are on 32bit MSYS

pacman -S --needed git base-devel unzip mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-i686-qt5

• If you are on 64bit MSYS

pacman -S --needed git base-devel unzip mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5

• Download and install hwloc (locally)

git clone https://github.com/open-mpi/hwloc
cd hwloc
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j$(nproc) install

• Get Elpida sources:

cd ~
git clone https://gitlab.com/dev-hood/elpida/elpida.git elpida
cd elpida
git submodule update --init
git checkout develop
git pull

• Copy scripts on sources root folder

cp scripts/MSYS2/bash/*.sh .

• Build Elpida

./rebuildElpida.sh

• Run Elpida

./runElpida.sh

Build for Linux (Debian Based, Fedora)

I provide some scripts for easier setup on Debian based and Fedora distributions.

• If you already have git installed:

git clone https://gitlab.com/dev-hood/elpida/elpida.git elpida

• If you don't have git installed then download the sources from here and extract them where you want

• Copy the scripts from the scripts/Linux folder to the source root:

cd elpida
cp scripts/Linux/* .
chmod u+x ./*.sh

• Download the packages needed to build elpida:

./downloadPackages.sh

• Build elpida:

./rebuildElpida.sh

or if you build the Qt frontend too

install/bin/elpida-qt

License

Elpida Library, Qt Front end and Default Benchmarks are licensed under GPL v3. For more information see LICENSE file.