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From: raj@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Suggestions for SPEC 3.0 CPU Performance Evaluation Suite
Message-ID: <36230004@hpindwa.cup.hp.com>
Date: 23 Jun 91 18:19:01 GMT
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Everyone seems to be quite interested in measuring the performance of
'computationally intensive' benchmarks and a few that will invlolve
local disk I/O. Essentially what one might call stand-alone
benchmarks. 

Has anything been proposed to SPEC to measure a systems performance in
non-standalone situations? Examples would be measures such as
nhfsstones, and perhaps an improved ttcp (well...). The really
interesting part would likely be DCE performance, as that seems to be
a big step towards distributed computing. Admittedly, the problem
becomes bigger, because the testbed is a group of systems, but isn't
that the 'future' of computing?

How much longer will all these systems remain stand-alone?

rick jones                              vvvv here is why I ask ;-) vvvv
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