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- From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: [l/m 1/31/92] benchmark source info-Intro -- netiquette (1/28) c.be FAQ
- Keywords: who, what, where, when, why, how
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- Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 12:25:09 GMT
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- Reply-To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
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- Archive-name: benchmark-faq/part1
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- 1 Introduction to FAQ chain and netiquette <This panel>
- 2 Benchmarking Concepts
- 3 PERFECT Club/Suite
- 4
- 5 Performance Metrics
- 6 Temporary scaffold of New FAQ material
- 7 Music to benchmark by
- 8 Benchmark types
- 9 Linpack
- 10
- 11 NIST source and .orgs
- 12 Measurement environments
- 13 SLALOM
- 14
- 15 12 Ways to Fool the Masses with Benchmarks
- 16 SPEC
- 17 Benchmark invalidation methods
- 18
- 19 WPI Benchmark
- 20 Equivalence
- 21 TPC
- 22
- 23 RFC 1242 terminology (network benchmarking)
- 24
- 25 Ridiculously short benchmarks
- 26 Other miscellaneous benchmarks
- 27
- 28 References
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- This is the 28 part Frequently Answered Questions chain post.
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- Some information before the next 27 parts come at you.
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- 0) If you are unfamiliar with NetNews, read this and a few other groups
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- You are net naive if you believe it does.
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- etc. It is not sufficient to simply queries when the FAQ exists and
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- What you are about to see is an experimental attempt at newsgroup
- self-moderation. It is that: EXPERIMENTAL. It has near equivalent control
- groups, measurements, etc. Each part is posted once a month for 28 days.
- Each part is supposed to represent the group's network memory. Each day
- is called a "panel." Each panel has a pointer (index) to other panels.
- A study has shown that most people will NOT read a post great than about
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- News.answers cross-post: a special moderated group for FAQs.
- Read n.a. if you want to get FAQs. N.a. readers: only the first panel of
- the chain is posted to n.a., read comp.benchmarks for the rest.
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