Category Archives: Application-based benchmarks

Benchmarking a benchmark

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Bill Catchings

July 13 One of the challenges of any benchmark is understanding its characteristics. The goal of a benchmark is to measure performance under a defined set of circumstances. For system-level, application-oriented benchmarks, it isn’t always obvious how individual components in … Continue reading →

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Putting HDXPRT in some benchmark context

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Mark Van Name

Benchmarks come in many shapes and sizes.  Some are extremely small, simple, and focused, while others are large, complex, and cover many aspects of a system.  To help position HDXPRT in the world of benchmarks, let me share with you … Continue reading →

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