Giga-updates per second
Giga-updates per second is a measure of computer performance. GUPS is a measurement of how frequently a computer can issue updates to randomly generated RAM locations. GUPS measurements stress the latency and especially bandwidth capabilities of a machine.
The BSS Random Access benchmark was proposed by IBM Research for measuring random memory access capability of multicores platforms. The new benchmark overcomes some of the major limitations of the HPC Challenge Random Memory Access benchmark.
