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- From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: [l/m 3/17/92] WPI Benchmark Suite (1.1) (19/28) c.be.FAQ
- Keywords: who, what, where, when, why, how
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 12:25:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.122515.12371@nas.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: mach@cs.wpi.edu
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- 19 WPI Benchmark <This panel>
- 20 Equivalence
- 21 TPC
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25 Ridiculously short benchmarks
- 26 Other miscellaneous benchmarks
- 27
- 28 References
- 1 Introduction to the FAQ chain and netiquette
- 2 Benchmarking concepts
- 3 PERFECT Club/Suite
- 4
- 5 Performance Metrics
- 6
- 7 Music to benchmark by
- 8 Benchmark types
- 9 Linpack
- 10
- 11 NIST source and .orgs
- 12 Benchmark Environments
- 13 SLALOM
- 14
- 15 12 Ways to Fool the Masses with Benchmarks
- 16 SPEC
- 17 Benchmark invalidation methods
- 18
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- The WPI Benchmark Suite, version 1.1, is now available for download
- via anonymous ftp. The WPI Benchmark Suite, developed with the support
- of the Research Institute of the Open Software Foundation, is a series
- of programs designed to investigate operating system performance of Unix
- and Unix-like operating systems. We have used the Benchmark Suite
- extensively to study the performance of various versions of the Mach
- operating system.
-
- The Benchmark Suite consists of six programs, each of which is designed
- to mimic the operating system resource usage of a user application.
- Each program can be run independently, and reports the execution time
- for the measured portion of the benchmark, as well as other resource
- usage.
-
- The programs are in the public domain, and may be downloaded via
- anonymous ftp from wpi.wpi.edu (130.215.24.1) in the "/benchmarks"
- directory. Get the file WPI_Benchmark_Suite_1.1.readme and either
- BenchmarkSuite1.1.tar.Z or BenchmarkSuite1.1.lzh.
-
- In addition to the benchmarks, there are two technical reports available
- on-line, describing the benchmarks and giving some sample results of
- running them. The technical reports are in the files benchmarks_tr1.ps
- and benchmarks_tr2.ps. The files are in PostScript format.
-
- If ftp is not available at your site, please send a message requesting
- the Suite by e-mail. This is a much slower process, so please ftp the
- benchmarks if you can.
-
- If you download the benchmarks, please send mail to mach@cs.wpi.edu
- to have your named placed on our mailing list for information about
- future releases. In addition, we are interested in your comments
- about the benchmarks and in hearing about your experiences in using
- them.
-
-
- Mach Research Group
- Computer Science Department Internet: mach@cs.wpi.edu
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Telephone: (508) 831-5357
- Worcester, MA 01609 USA FAX: (508) 831-5776
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