Path: utzoo!censor!geac!lethe!tvcent!comspec!telly!attcan!uunet!mcsun!corton!imag!mururoa!carnot!benjamin From: benjamin@gr.osf.org (Jimmy Benjamin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: SSBA and Cobra Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 10:25:29 GMT References: <1575@ftc.framentec.fr> <1991Mar22.171710.1806@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@imag.fr Followup-To: comp.benchmark Organization: OSF Research Institute- Grenoble Lines: 63 In-reply-to: de5@ornl.gov's message of 22 Mar 91 17:17:10 GMT In article <1991Mar22.171710.1806@cs.utk.edu> de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes: > >While waiting for the 730, here is what we get for a 720: > > SYNTHESE DES RESULTATS DE LA SSBA 1.21F (27/02/89) > > Two questions: what's SSBA, and any chance of getting an > English-language translation? (Yes, I can figger most of it out, but > not all.) The SSBA is a benchmark suite created and distributed by the Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix (A.F.U.U.). I believe that AFUU membership is a prerequisite to having the benchmark suite. BTW SSBA is "Suite Synthetique des Benchmarks de l'AFUU," or "a synthetic suite of benchmarks of the AFUU." The creators constrain vendors against SSBA results in advertisments; I'm not sure how freely the internals of the benchmarks themselves can be discussed. The EUUG89 Spring Conference featured the paper "Performance Evaluation: The SSBA at AFUU" that contains further information. The paper described the then-current version of the benchmark suite in the following paragraphs (the ed insert is mine, the rest is an exact quotation): In summary, we settle on the following public domain benchmarks: Dhrystone (500000 iterations), Whetstone (50000000 instructions), Linpack (100x100, we're targetting general computers, we're not looking at peak performance from Class VII or above machines...), Utah, Byte, Saxer (10 Mega bytes I/O), DoDuc... all of which are used as is. We use BSD [ed: another benchmark], as it was intended to be used, to look at performance of memory management and system calls We modified Musbus, not only because some of its functionalities have already been taken care of earlier, but because we want it to be flexible and customizable by informed users. Finally, noblesse oblige, we put ahead of these benchmarks the famous formulae by Bill Joy which, after all, is not a too bad MIPS measurement. As you mayt already notice, the SSBA does'nt pretend to be a new benchmark; it wants to be a clear, common, easy-to-use and easy-to-understand one. The added value from our Benchmark group is just the work to collect, interpret, analyze valuable elementary benchmarks and assemble them so that the SSBA can be used, easily and quickly, by each and all of us. If you need more info, I suggest email to afuu_bench@inria.inria.fr, or perhaps to Christophe Binot (binot@afuu.fr). Hope this helps, Dave. > -- > Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) It will be a great day when our schools have > Martin Marietta Energy Systems all the money they need and the Air Force > Workstation Support has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber. On sabbatical from HP in Cupertino, CA to OSF in Grenoble, France -- Jimmy Benjamin Open Software Foundation Phone: +33-76-63-48-78 Research Institute FAX: +33-76-51-05-32 2 Avenue De Vignate Email: benjamin@gr.osf.org 38610 Gieres, France uunet!gr.osf.org!benjamin