stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces. stress-ng also has a wide range of CPU specific stress tests that exercise floating point, integer, bit manipulation and control flow.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/snecker/stress-ng/