Category Archives: Performance benchmarking

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 →

Posted in Application-based benchmarks, Benchmark metrics, HDXPRT 2011 results, Let us know your thoughts, Performance benchmarking, What makes a good benchmark? |

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 →

Posted in Application-based benchmarks, Benchmarks in general, History of benchmarking, Performance benchmarking |

Our community’s goal

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Bill Catchings

Computer system performance evaluation has a long and complex history. Many of the earliest tests were simple, short code snippets, such as Whetstone, that did little more than give an indication of how fast a particular computer subsystem was able … Continue reading →

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