Merge pull request #2027 from geremyCohen/go_sweet_bench

Go/Sweet benchmarks

Author: pareenaverma

content/learning-paths/servers-and-cloud-computing/go-benchmarking-with-sweet/_index.md

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+title: Go Benchmarks with Sweet and Benchstat
+
+minutes_to_complete: 60
+
+who_is_this_for: This learning path is for developers who are interested in measuring the performance of Go-based applications on their servers.
+
+learning_objectives: 
+    - Bring up two instances of GCP VMs 
+    - Install Go, benchmarks, benchstat, and sweet on the two VMs  
+    - Using sweet and benchstat, compare performance of Go applications on the two VMs
+
+prerequisites:
+    - A [Google Cloud account](https://console.cloud.google.com/).  This learning path can be run on-prem or on any cloud provider, but specifically documents the process on GCP's Google Axion platform.
+    - A local machine with [Google Cloud CLI](/install-guides/gcloud/) installed.
+
+author: Geremy Cohen
+
+### Tags
+skilllevels: Introductory
+subjects: Performance and Architecture
+armips:
+    - Neoverse
+tools_software_languages:
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+operatingsystems:
+    - Linux
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content/learning-paths/servers-and-cloud-computing/go-benchmarking-with-sweet/add_c4_vm.md

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+title: Launching an Intel C4 Instance
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+## Section Overview
+In this section, you will set up the second benchmarking system, an Intel-based c4-standard-8 instance.
+
+## Creating the Instance
+
+To create the second system, follow the previous lesson's c4a install instructions, but make the following changes:
+
+1. **Name your instance:** For the `Name` field, enter "c4".
+
+2. **Select machine series:** Scroll down to the Machine series section, and select the C4 radio button.
+
+![](images/launch_c4/3.png)
+
+3. **View machine types:** Scroll down to the Machine type dropdown, and click it to show all available options.
+
+![](images/launch_c4/4.png)
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+4. **Choose machine size:** Select "c4-standard-8" under the Standard tab.
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+![](images/launch_c4/5.png)
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+After the c4 instance starts up, you are ready to continue to the next section, where you'll install the benchmarking software.

content/learning-paths/servers-and-cloud-computing/go-benchmarking-with-sweet/add_c4a_vm.md

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+title: Launching an Arm Axion C4a Instance
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+## Section Overview
+In this section, you'll learn how to spin up the first of two different systems used in our benchmarking tests, an Arm-based Google Axion c4a-standard-4 (c4a for short).
+
+## Creating the c4a-standard-4 Instance
+
+1. **Access Google Cloud Console:** Navigate to [https://console.cloud.google.com/welcome](https://console.cloud.google.com/welcome)
+
+2. **Search for VM instances:** Click into the Search field.
+
+3. **Find VM Instances:** Start typing `vm` until the UI auto-completes `VM Instances`, then click it.
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/3.png)
+
+The VM Instances page appears.
+
+4. **Create a new instance:** Click `Create instance`
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/4.png)
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+The Machine configuration page appears.
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+5. **Name your instance:** Click the `Name` field, and enter "c4a" for the `Name`.
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/5.png)
+
+6. **Select machine series:** Scroll down to the Machine series section, and select the C4A radio button.
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/7.png)
+
+7. **View machine types:** Scroll down to the Machine type dropdown, and click it to show all available options.
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/8.png)
+
+8. **Choose machine size:** Select "c4a-standard-4" under the Standard tab.
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/9.png)
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+9. **Configure storage:** Click the "OS and Storage" tab.
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+![](images/launch_c4a/10.png)
+
+10. **Modify storage settings:** Click "Change"
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+![](images/launch_c4a/11.png)
+
+11. **Set disk size:** Double-click the "Size (GB)" field, then enter "1000" for the value.
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/16.png)
+
+12. **Confirm storage settings:** Click "Select" to continue.
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/18.png)
+
+13. **Launch the instance:** Click "Create" to bring up the instance.
+
+![](images/launch_c4a/19.png)
+
+After a few seconds, your c4a instance starts up, and you are ready to continue to the next section. In the next step, you will launch the second system, an Intel-based Emerald Rapids c4-standard-8 (c4 for short), which will serve as the comparison system for our benchmarking tests.
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