I would like to be able to compare performance of multicore computers from a point of view of a user who performs typical day-to-day tasks in Linux. My current goal is to collect a list of compute intensive open-source command-line utilities that have built-in support of multithreading.
By searching with man -K 1, apropos, yum search all, zypper search -d for "parallel", "processor", "thread", I identified the following applications that satisfy my needs: pbzip2 -p#, pigz -p #, pixz -p #, sort --parallel=#, xz -T #.
Of course, one can also utilize multicore systems by running sequential applications in background or utilizing pipes, GNU parallel, tee, xargs -P #. I am also aware of make -j # that is used to speed up building.
Does anybody know any other compute intensive open-source Linux CLI utils that could exploit multicore processors?
As I'm primarily interested in utils that could be installed from vendor-supplied repos, "non-standard" utils are also welcomed.
