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  1. Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!amelia.nas.nasa.gov!eugene
  3. From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
  4. Subject: [l/m 4/6/92] New FAQ scaffold (6/28)        c.be FAQ
  5. Keywords: who, what, where, when, why, how
  6. Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
  7. Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
  8. Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 12:25:10 GMT
  9. Message-ID: <1993Jan6.122510.17032@nas.nasa.gov>
  10. Reply-To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
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  13. 6    Temporary scaffold of New FAQ material            <this panel>
  14. 7    Music to benchmark by
  15. 8    Benchmark types
  16. 9    Linpack
  17. 10
  18. 11    NIST source and .orgs
  19. 12    Benchmark Environments
  20. 13    SLALOM
  21. 14
  22. 15    12 Ways to Fool the Masses with Benchmarks
  23. 16    SPEC
  24. 17    Benchmark invalidation methods
  25. 18
  26. 19    WPI Benchmark
  27. 20    Equivalence
  28. 21    TPC
  29. 22
  30. 23    RFC 1242 terminology (network benchmarking)
  31. 24
  32. 25    Ridiculously short benchmarks
  33. 26    Other miscellaneous benchmarks
  34. 27
  35. 28    References
  36. 1    Introduction to FAQ chain and netiquette
  37. 2    Benchmarking concepts
  38. 3    PERFECT Club/Suite
  39. 4
  40. 5    Performance Metrics
  41.  
  42. Terminology
  43.     Evaluation
  44.     Analysis
  45.         Mean Value Analysis
  46.     Measurement
  47. Model
  48. Equivalence
  49.     Languages
  50.     Surrogates
  51.  
  52. Minimal benchmarks
  53.     Kernels
  54.     Tests
  55. Simulations of benchmarks
  56. Results data base
  57. Source code
  58.     Version control
  59. Reduciability
  60. Representativeness
  61.     Functionality, how do you know it works? (correctness)
  62. Testing
  63.  
  64. Workloads.
  65.  
  66. Output
  67.     Analysis
  68.     Interpretation
  69.     Statistics, Composites, Averages, means, variance,
  70.         Normalized numbers
  71.     Graphics
  72.  
  73. Who
  74. Virtual work
  75. Application characterization
  76.  
  77. Kinds of benchmarkers
  78. People who have to take numbers by faith.
  79. People who reproduce but do so blindly.
  80. People with the time and energy to do so.
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