dipto@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Dipto Chakravarty) (03/12/88)
Benchmarking programs needed We are in need of benchmarking programs for various types of workstations that are currently under evaluation + study. I need to get some enlightenment in this topic of benchmarking. Of whatever little I know of benchmarks, it appears that there are a variety of public domain benchmarks that are available. I will try to give some outline of what we need, hereunder. (1) A floating-point based bench mark is required for a Microvax II running VMS 4.7. We want to test it against a 11/785 and a 8600 machine. It will be nice if I could get the src code or the .EXE file(s) for Application oriented, Disc access oriented and CPU intensive benchmarks. I have heard that in addition to public domain benchmarking programs, there are source codes available, such as 'Wet-stone' (spelling?), for evaluating floating point based applications. Can someone kindly e-mail me the source code(s) for such standard routines? (2) A floating point based and disc access based benchmark for a Sun station running 4.2 BSD Unix and 2.1 DEC Ultrix will also be needed. Readers, I do understand that my specifications mentioned above, could be little off or vague. But, bare it with me; this is my first experience with benchmarks. Thanks to all for taking the time to read this article. Kindly send me e-mail directly, as I am not a regular reader of all the groups where this is getting posted. -- BITNET : dipto@umbc2 ------\ ARPANET: dipto@umbc3.UMD.EDU -------> In-real-life: Dipto Chakravarty USMAIL : CMSC, UMBC,Md 21228 ------/