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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: Benchmarking research (looking for interested parties)
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 17:29:32 EST
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I am aware that benchmarks in the past tended to give single numbers which
ignorant managers would go running off into the void to argue for some
stupid machine.  The intent of my solicitation for others interested in
benchmarking is to come up with a set of tests (don't call them benchmarks
then) which would be able to distinguish architectural characteristics
of various architectures.  Several of us want to be able to determine
the extent of pipelining (hardware), dataflow architectures, vector architectures,
and so on.  I realize this is not an easy task, but I want to give it a try
and I have a couple of other researchers also willing.


--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Res. Ctr.
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