Hierarchical INTegration
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'''Hierarchical INTegration''', or '''HINT''' for short, is a computer [[Benchmark (computing)|benchmark]] that ranks a computer system as a whole (i.e. the entire computer instead of individual components). It measures the full range of performance, mostly based on the amount of work a computer can perform over time. A system with a very fast processor would likely be rated poorly if the [[Computer bus|buses]] were very poor compared to those of another system that had both an average processor and average buses. For example, in the past, [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] computers with relatively slow processor speeds (800 MHz) used to perform better than [[x86]] based systems with processors running at nearly 2GHz.
HINT is widely known for being almost immune to artificial optimization. HINT can be used by many computers ranging from a calculator to a supercomputer. It was developed at the [[U.S. Department of Energy|U.S. Department of Energy's]] [[Ames Laboratory]] and is licensed under the terms of the [[GNU General Public License]].
==External links==
* [http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Publications/Inquiry/Inquiry,winter1995.html article discussing HINT benchmark]
* [http://www.ima.umn.edu/~coult/soft.html benchmark sources download]
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