de5@STC06.CTD.ORNL.GOV (SILL D E) (09/11/90)
[Eliot Lear refused to post this on news.announce.newgroups on the grounds that the Guidelines require the Call for Votes to be posted within 30 days of the Call for Discussion. Since the Guidelines make no such requirement, and I don't want to wait another week to start the vote, I'm posting this directly.] NAME: comp.benchmarks CHARTER: Discussion of benchmarks and benchmarking including reporting benchmark results and publishing benchmark source code and bug fixes. MODERATION STATUS: unmoderated HOW TO VOTE: Mail votes to de5@ornl.gov. Include "comp.benchmarks" in the subject and a clear indication of your vote, such as "yes" or "for" to indicate approval, or "no" or "against" to indicate disapproval, in either the subject or body of your message. VOTE CONFIRMATION: I may post one mass acknowledgment. I won't respond individually to all voters. VOTING PERIOD: 21 days from posting of this Call for Votes. COMMENTARY: It's been over a month since I posted the Call for Discussion for this group. Response has been favorable enough to warrant a Call for Votes. The only issue discussed in news.groups on this topic was moderation status. Since there were only a couple of people who really wanted moderation, and nobody countered my objections to moderation, I feel moderation is unwarranted at this time. Here's some information from the original Call for Discussion: "There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks," to paraphrase someone whose name escapes me at the moment [Mark Twain] . Like it or not, though, benchmarks are a fact of life in the computing world. So in the spirit of `knowing thy enemy', I'd like to propose the formation of an unmoderated newsgroup for: - Discussions about benchmarks including: . hardware benchmarks . numeric benchmarks . operating system benchmarks . compiler benchmarks . graphics benchmarks . window system benchmarks . multiple interactive user load simulations . validity of benchmarks/benchmarking . benchmarking as a procurement tool . benchmarking anecdotes - Publishing benchmark results . especially user-run rather than vendor-run - Publishing benchmark source code and availability info . including bug fixes/reports -- Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) Martin Marietta Energy Systems Workstation Support
de5@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov (SILL D E) (09/15/90)
[This posting does not strictly adhere to the guidelines, as the call for votes was not timely.-eliot] NAME: comp.benchmarks CHARTER: Discussion of benchmarks and benchmarking including reporting benchmark results and publishing benchmark source code and bug fixes. MODERATION STATUS: unmoderated HOW TO VOTE: Mail votes to de5@ornl.gov. Include "comp.benchmarks" in the subject and a clear indication of your vote, such as "yes" or "for" to indicate approval, or "no" or "against" to indicate disapproval, in either the subject or body of your message. VOTE CONFIRMATION: I may post one mass acknowledgment. I won't respond individually to all voters. VOTING PERIOD: 21 days from news.announce.newgroups posting of this Call for Votes. COMMENTARY: It's been over a month since I posted the Call for Discussion for this group. Response has been favorable enough to warrant a Call for Votes. The only issue discussed in news.groups on this topic was moderation status. Since there were only a couple of people who really wanted moderation, and nobody countered my objections to moderation, I feel moderation is unwarranted at this time. Here's some information from the original Call for Discussion: "There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks," to paraphrase someone whose name escapes me at the moment [Mark Twain] . Like it or not, though, benchmarks are a fact of life in the computing world. So in the spirit of `knowing thy enemy', I'd like to propose the formation of an unmoderated newsgroup for: - Discussions about benchmarks including: . hardware benchmarks . numeric benchmarks . operating system benchmarks . compiler benchmarks . graphics benchmarks . window system benchmarks . multiple interactive user load simulations . validity of benchmarks/benchmarking . benchmarking as a procurement tool . benchmarking anecdotes - Publishing benchmark results . especially user-run rather than vendor-run - Publishing benchmark source code and availability info . including bug fixes/reports -- Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) Martin Marietta Energy Systems Workstation Support
de5@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov (SILL D E) (10/01/90)
NAME: comp.benchmarks CHARTER: Discussion of benchmarks and benchmarking including reporting benchmark results and publishing benchmark source code and bug fixes. MODERATION STATUS: unmoderated HOW TO VOTE: Mail votes to de5@ornl.gov. Include "comp.benchmarks" in the subject and a clear indication of your vote, such as "yes" or "for" to indicate approval, or "no" or "against" to indicate disapproval, in either the subject or body of your message. VOTE CONFIRMATION: I may post one mass acknowledgment. I won't respond individually to all voters. VOTING PERIOD: 21 days from news.announce.newgroups posting of this Call for Votes. [Votes closes October 5, 1990] COMMENTARY: It's been over a month since I posted the Call for Discussion for this group. Response has been favorable enough to warrant a Call for Votes. The only issue discussed in news.groups on this topic was moderation status. Since there were only a couple of people who really wanted moderation, and nobody countered my objections to moderation, I feel moderation is unwarranted at this time. Here's some information from the original Call for Discussion: "There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks," to paraphrase someone whose name escapes me at the moment [Mark Twain] . Like it or not, though, benchmarks are a fact of life in the computing world. So in the spirit of `knowing thy enemy', I'd like to propose the formation of an unmoderated newsgroup for: - Discussions about benchmarks including: . hardware benchmarks . numeric benchmarks . operating system benchmarks . compiler benchmarks . graphics benchmarks . window system benchmarks . multiple interactive user load simulations . validity of benchmarks/benchmarking . benchmarking as a procurement tool . benchmarking anecdotes - Publishing benchmark results . especially user-run rather than vendor-run - Publishing benchmark source code and availability info . including bug fixes/reports Votes have been recorded for the following people: ---- "Alan Rollow" <alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com> "Christer Olsson" smidt@cd.chalmers.se "DAYHOFF, RUSSELL" <dayhoff@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil> "Dennis Lienke" <drl@uh.msc.umn.edu> "Edward A. Feustel" <efeustel%wolman.prime.com@relay.cs.net> "James M. Armstrong" <armstron@cs.arizona.edu> "John D. McCalpin" <mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu> "Jon C. R. Bennett" <jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jonathan Creighton" <JCREIGHT.US1.oramail@hqsun3.oracle.com> "Michael S. Pereckas" <msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> "Randy Carraghan" <RMC100@psuvm.psu.edu> <marks@ssdevo.enet.dec.com> Aaron Leonard <LEONARD@arizona.edu> Allen George Supynuk <USERSUPY%ualtamts.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Amos Shapir <amos@taux01.nsc.com> Andreas Bjorklind <abj@ida.liu.se> Andrew Wolfe <wolfe@vw.ece.cmu.edu> BOWEN@ibm.com (Bowen Alpern) CJMCHALE%cs.tcd.ie@pucc.princeton.edu Charles Koelbel <chk@rice.edu> Chris Newburn <newburn@husky.ece.cmu.edu> Colin Plumb <ccplumb@spurge.waterloo.edu> Dan Schlitt <dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> Dan Severance <dan@doctor.chem.yale.edu> Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org Dave Sill <de5@de5.ctd.ornl.gov> David Parter <dparter@cs.wisc.edu> David Wright <D.W.Wright@stl.stc.co.uk> Don Berlin <berlin@iptl4330a.erim.org> Don_Lewine%dgc.ceo.dg.com@relay.cs.net Doug Kerr <doug@cis.ohio-state.edu> Ed Schwalenberg <ed@odi.com> Eric Haines <eye!erich@uu.psi.com> Ernie L. Ellenberger <ernie@cwlim.ins.cwru.edu> Eugene N. 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