mark@hubcap.UUCP (Mark Smotherman) (02/18/89)
For what it's worth, Dr. Dobb's Journal in the Feb. '89 issue reports
goals for a real-time benchmark, a project spearheaded by R.P. Kar of
Intel Systems Group, Hillsboro, OR. The article asks for suggestions
for improvements in order to produce a Rhealstone standard benchmark.
Suggestions are requested (in writing) by 1 March 1989, so that a
"final version" can be published in DDJ's June issue.
The items of measurement currently identified are:
task switching time
preemption time
interrupt latency time
semaphore shuffling time (signal => waiting process activation)
deadlock breaking time (transfer ownership of critical resource
from preempted low-priority task to high-priority task)
datagram throughput time (pipe/message passing/stream file)
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Mark Smotherman, Comp. Sci. Dept., Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
INTERNET: mark@hubcap.clemson.edu UUCP: gatech!hubcap!markalan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy) (02/20/89)
In article <4476@hubcap.UUCP> mark@hubcap.UUCP (Mark Smotherman) writes: >For what it's worth, Dr. Dobb's Journal in the Feb. '89 issue reports >goals for a real-time benchmark, a project spearheaded by R.P. Kar of >Intel Systems Group, Hillsboro, OR. The article asks for suggestions >for improvements in order to produce a Rhealstone standard benchmark. It seems that *h*stone has become a standard infix/prefix for naming computer benchmarks. It might be interesting to collect a list of all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would use this infix/prefix. Stoned Benchmarks: Whetstone (floating-point) Dhrystone (integer) Dhampstone (integer and floating-point) Rhealstone (real-time/tasking) "IO-stone" (there is an IO benchmark that uses -stone, but I forget its name) Suggestions for Stoned Benchmarks: An animation benchmark might be called the "Flhintstone" :-). -- Alan Lovejoy; alan@pdn; 813-530-2211; ATT-Paradyne: 8550 Ulmerton, Largo, FL. Disclaimer: I do not speak for ATT-Paradyne. They do not speak for me. ___________ This Month's Slogan: Reach out and BUY someone (tm). ___________ Motto: If nanomachines will be able to reconstruct you, YOU AREN'T DEAD YET.
chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (02/22/89)
In article <5681@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> alan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes: >It seems that *h*stone has become a standard infix/prefix for naming >computer benchmarks. It might be interesting to collect a list of >all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain >suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would >use this infix/prefix. > >Suggestions for Stoned Benchmarks: > >An animation benchmark might be called the "Flhintstone" :-). I think this is a great idea! Let it be known, years from now, when everyone wonders where the name originated, that it was right here in comp.arch, courtesy of Mr. Lovejoy. Chuck Musciano Advanced Technology Department Harris Corporation (407) 727-6131 ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com
Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com (02/22/89)
RhollingStone -- for benchmarking sound generation systems. Sahndstone -- for benchmarking silcon (get it, sand) chips. Soahpstone -- for measuring daytime cable tv usage. Flahgstone -- for benchmarking boolean operations. WhatStone? -- for statistical verification of psuedo randome number generators Devin_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com ...!ucbvax!sun!cup.portal.com!devin_e_ben-hur
robert@jive.sybase.com (Robert Garvey) (02/23/89)
In article <5681@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> alan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes: >It might be interesting to collect a list of >all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain >suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would >use this infix/prefix. Natural language translation benchmark Rhosettastone -- Robert Garvey robert%sybase.com@sun.com Sybase, Inc {pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis,capmkt}!sybase!robert Emeryville, CA 94608
sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) (02/23/89)
In article <1521@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes: >In article <5681@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> alan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes: >>It seems that *h*stone has become a standard infix/prefix for naming >>computer benchmarks. It might be interesting to collect a list of >>all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain >>suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would >>use this infix/prefix. >> A year or so back I did a quicky called "newstone". Basically the average number of news your systems unbatches per minute. We can hereby rename it using your conventions as the "nhewstones" benchmark. Was slightly useful for load balancing tests. All it did was to scan the history file and count the articles. It ignored any minutes which did not have an article unbatched in the previous or following minutes to eliminate the startup and finishup times. My little Callan does about 10 nhewstones. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532
ced@apollo.COM (Carl Davidson) (02/23/89)
From article <1521@trantor.harris-atd.com>, by chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano): > In article <5681@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> alan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes: >>It seems that *h*stone has become a standard infix/prefix for naming >>computer benchmarks. It might be interesting to collect a list of >>all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain >>suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would >>use this infix/prefix. >> >>Suggestions for Stoned Benchmarks: >> >>An animation benchmark might be called the "Flhintstone" :-). > > I think this is a great idea! Let it be known, years from now, when > everyone wonders where the name originated, that it was right here in > comp.arch, courtesy of Mr. Lovejoy. > > Chuck Musciano > Advanced Technology Department > Harris Corporation > (407) 727-6131 > ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com No! No! No! It should be Fhlintstones! The "h" is *always* the second letter! (flames about spelling flames to /dev/null -- this is not a spelling flame) Otherwise, a great idea. -- Carl Davidson "Real life is too important to be taken seriously" Apollo Computer Inc. Chelmsford, MA 01824 ced@apollo.com
dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (David Newton) (02/24/89)
Whystone -- asks the computer why bother a whole bunch of times
Wherestone -- i dunno, turns the computer into a hairy stone if
the moon is full? (groan)
Captain Blighstone -- does some sort of micro-mutiny
Sighstone -- relates performance time to how bored the operator is
with doing benchmarks
Chrystone (crystone) -- the operator is *thouroughly* bored now
Sthystones (Stystnes) - show operator how messy insides of computer
is in relation to its speed
okay, so i was bored.jas@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland) (02/24/89)
Well, since no-one has bravely come forward with it yet: Ehverybodymustgetstone -- tests the degree of nondeterminism in an instruction set. (Apologies to Robert Zimmerman.) Jim Shankland jas@ernie.berkeley.edu "I've been walking in a river all my life, and now my feet are wet"
edw@pinot.zehntel.com (Ed Wright) (02/24/89)
=Whetstone (floating-point)
=Dhrystone (integer)
=Dhampstone (integer and floating-point)
=Rhealstone (real-time/tasking)
="IO-stone" (there is an IO benchmark that uses -stone, but I forget its name)
=
=Suggestions for Stoned Benchmarks:
=
=An animation benchmark might be called the "Flhintstone" :-).
My favorite The cherrystone The number of novice roots users a
machine can survive
ed
KA9AHQ sun or ucbvax or varian ! zehntel!edw edw@zehntel.COM
I don't want to play, I want to bang on de drum all day.
I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day.warren@tikal.Teltone.COM (Warren Seltzer) (02/24/89)
BhlarneyStone -- For Benchmarking Vaporware ! -- (206) 827-9626 Warren Seltzer ...uw-beaver_____!tikal!warren Teltone Corporation .......fluke___/ P.O. Box 657 ...microsoft__/ Kirkland, WA 98033
ram@shukra.Sun.COM (Renu Raman) (02/24/89)
>RhollingStone -- for benchmarking sound generation systems. >Sahndstone -- for benchmarking silcon (get it, sand) chips. >Soahpstone -- for measuring daytime cable tv usage. >Flahgstone -- for benchmarking boolean operations. >WhatStone? -- for statistical verification of psuedo randome number generators Firestone -- where your mileage may vary :-)
merkel@shuxd.UUCP (Thomas Merkel) (02/24/89)
How about Gallstone - for evaluating medical diagnostic expert systems.
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Tom Merkel | merkel@shuxd.att.com
Hard work never hurt anyone, | att!shuxd!merkel
but why take chances. | merkel%shuxd@att.arpaklg@dukeac.UUCP (Kim Greer) (02/24/89)
Lhoadstone - benchmark that is a lhoad of <insert favorite expletive here> I notice ballerinas are often on tiptoes .... why don't they just get taller dancers? -- Kim L. Greer Duke University Medical Center try: klg@orion.mc.duke.edu Div. Nuclear Medicine POB 3949 dukeac!klg@ecsgate Durham, NC 27710 919-681-2711x223 ...!mcnc!ecsgate!dukeac!klg fax: 919-681-5636
daryl@hpcllla.HP.COM (Daryl Odnert) (02/25/89)
Devin_E_Ben-Hur writes: > RhollingStone -- for benchmarking sound generation systems. Actually, this program is a test of how much moss your system can gather. How about shlyandthefamilystone - measures how "funky" your system is Daryl (ooh, that was a bad one) Odnert Hewlett-Packard
ard@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (Akash Deshpande) (02/25/89)
Lhivingstone : Benchmark for anthropology in Africa -Akash
don@redsun.UUCP (Donald C. Currie) (02/25/89)
I thought WhatStone? was the benchmark for voice recognition
systems... :)!
- DeeCee
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Portland Public Schools Inventor of Empirical Whip -
Research & Evaluation Dept. "The mayonnaise of mathematicians everywhere!"
Portland, Oregon 97227 Work: (503) 249-2000 ext. 252steve@goofy.nm.paradyne.com (Steve Fowler) (02/25/89)
Hheadstone - Benchmarking of defunct processes. Steve Fowler \ _ / |UUCP: ..!uunet!pdn!steve --- AT&T/Paradyne ~o.O~ |DOMAIN: steve@pdn.nm.paradyne.com -==-- P.O. Box 2826 (_|_) |LAND: (813)530-2186 -==-- AT&T Largo, FL 34649-2826 / U |SEA: 27 53 30 N / 82 45 30 W --- Paradyne
nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) (02/25/89)
In article <3087@sybase.sybase.com> robert@jive.UUCP (Robert Garvey) writes: >Natural language translation benchmark > Rhosettastone Medical expert systems benchmark: Khidneystone So, when a system has been benchmarked, it "passes the Khidneystone test" /.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ...\ / Neil Weinstock | att!cord!nsw | "One man's garbage is another \ \ AT&T Bell Labs | nsw@cord.att.com | man's prune danish." - Harv Laser / \.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . .../
melvin@cygnus (Steve Melvin) (02/25/89)
Yhellowstone simulates a "let-it-burn" policy on your computer's memory
abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) (02/25/89)
In article <5681@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> alan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes: >It might be interesting to collect a list of >all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain >suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would >use this infix/prefix. BhlackStone: Used to benchmark magic tricks. -- Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl UUCP: ...!sm.unisys.com!csun!csuna.csun.edu!abcscnge -- "Beat me, whip me, make me code in Ada" -- Disclaimers? We don't need no stinking disclaimers!!!
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (02/26/89)
don@redsun.UUCP (Donald C. Currie) writes: > I thought WhatStone? was the benchmark for voice recognition systems... :)! No, actually it's a benchmark for telephonic emergency distress call systems. The first recorded reference to this was Alexander Bell's famous "Come here Whatstone, I need you!", yelled in exasperation when he realized he needed some benchmark figures to give to the marketing yahoos who were trying to sell his new telephone. Unfortunately, the quality of the line was not as good as with modern digital fiber circuits, so his assistant, Thomas Watson, thought Bell was calling for help. Watson rushed into the room, and in his haste, spilled a jar of battery acid on Bell's hand. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"
firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) (02/27/89)
A series of benchmarks that can be used to prove any machine architecture superior to any other: Schissorspaperstone
panoff@hubcap.UUCP (Robert M. Panoff) (02/28/89)
GhallStones: measures audacity of claims by system engineers
or administrators or used-car salesmen
KhidneyStones: measures rate at which you get pissed off by
vendors or administrators or used-car salesmen
(right now running at about 7 KS)
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rmp, for the Bob's of the Worldneil@miclon.UUCP (Neil Readwin) (03/12/89)
In article <24046@watmath.waterloo.edu>, sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu writes: > lhodestone: how long it takes to load a program/boot the OS. Ward's Law: The time taken to boot any OS is a constant value slightly greater than the time the user finds acceptable. -- neil@uk.co.mic.lon ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!miclon!neil Disclaimer: This company NEVER agrees with me :-(