This is a tool in the line of app-benchmarks/stress, app-benchmarks/stress-ng and dev-util/stressapptest. Compared to the other tools, "FIRESTARTER is a simple yet versatile Open Source tool that reliably exceeds the power consumption of other stress tests and creates very steady power consumption patterns". DESCRIPTION="Processor Stress Test Utility" HOMEPAGE="https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/projekte/firestarter"