alt Hacker NewsThe RandomAccess (or GUPS) benchmark (see: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4100365) was looking at measuring machines on this kind of workload. In high performance computing this was important for graph calculations and was one of the things the Cray (formerly Tera) MTA machine was particularly good at. I suppose this benchmark wouldn’t be very widely known outside HPC circles.
I worked on the MTA architectures for years among several other HPC systems but I don’t remember this particular benchmark. I suspect it was replaced by the Graph500 benchmark. Graph500 measures something similar and was introduced only a few years after GUPS.