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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Subject: Re: What is AIM stand for ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.034046.737@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- References: <1992Sep10.164708.21294@aim.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 03:40:46 GMT
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- rec@aim.com (Bob Cousins) writes:
- :
- : However, for the Aim Performance Report (the first page of which is
- : published in the Price Performance Guide), to guarantee an
- : apples-to-apples comparison, we use the following mix for the Suite
- : III run:
- :
- : 20% main memory
- : 10% fp (single and double)
- : 20% integer
- : 10% IPC
- : 20% function calls
- : 20% disk I/O
- : ----
- : 100%
- :
- : This mix has been in use for more than two years and has proven to be
- : highly satisfactory. We arrived at this mix by working with our
- : customers, some key industry experts and consultants. Amazingly, we
- : reached consensus on this mix quite quickly. (Some vendors have their
- : own agendas which can make consensus slow or impossible to reach.) The
- It shows that you must have separate programs testing those portions that you
- want. You miss the "cache" evaluation.
-
- Instead of trying to predict how a software behaves, why don't you just
- characterise the "requirements" of typical software.
- Use your test suites to predict the performance of that software.
-
- I believe this is the way engineers work. They introduce concepts such as
- complex impedence, noise, distortion, to a machine, and characterise how a
- signal behave in those environments.
- It is just too hard to predict the "typical" resource mix. Let the
- user determine it himself.
- If we have a tool that can measure the characteristics of a software,
- in terms of those "propertise", better still.
-
- --
- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
- Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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