[comp.std.misc] Objective Benchmarks

david@cis.ohio-state.edu (David L. Summerville) (09/15/90)

Submitted-by: david@cis.ohio-state.edu (David L. Summerville)

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My organization is beginning a "Tier-II Assessment". 

The goal is to define what the Corporation needs in terms of 
computing services for sub-divisions of 170 users and under.  

Perhaps a Unix solution will accomodate our needs.  

Are there objective benchmarks that we can use or purchase to 
assess "Price/Performance" for Unix machines?  I'm looking for 
something as vendor-independent as possible.  
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drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (09/16/90)

In article <520@usenix.ORG> david@cis.ohio-state.edu (David L. Summerville) writes:
>Are there objective benchmarks that we can use or purchase to 
>assess "Price/Performance" for Unix machines?  I'm looking for 
>something as vendor-independent as possible.  

That's exactly what the SPEC benchmarks are supposed to be.  


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