SuperPi

One of the classic benchmarks is SuperPi. This ancient program, which dates back to 1995, can calculate Pi to a certain number of digits. We used the 1M digits test of version 1.5.

RAR

RAR and the popular GUI version WinRAR are compression programs that offer several additional features over ZIP. We used version 3.61 on a 57 MB wave file digitally ripped from an audio CD. Uncompressed wave files are a good dataset to work on because they can be compressed a lot.