NDLI: Evaluation and performance of computers: application benchmarks: the key to meaningful computer evaluations

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Joslin, E. O.
Abstract	THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION in any evaluation of a computer should be, “How long will it take this system to process my workload?” If the system cannot do the workload, there is no point in asking how much it costs or any other facts about the system. With this thought in mind, it then becomes apparent why the technique used to determine the answer to this “how long” question becomes the most important item in any computer evaluation. Time does not permit a detailed discussion of both: why application benchmarks are the best of the timing techniques available, and of the method for setting up application benchmarks which will be truly representative of the applications to be run. Therefore, the second topic (Setting Up Application Benchmarks) has been chosen, because I believe most who have tried other timing techniques know there must be something better. I also feel that those who have used application benchmarks have limited their thinking to sequential processing systems and should now consider the preparation of application benchmarks for systems capable of multi-processing and/or multi-programming.
Starting Page	27
Ending Page	37
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/800197.806031
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1965-08-24
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Evaluation and performance of computers: application benchmarks: the key to meaningful computer evaluations