[comp.realtime] Info request, "realstomnes"

putnam@Control.COM (Fred Putnam) (05/17/91)

in somebody's brochure for the same, but that's about all I know.
Could someone please post here or mail to me references as to where
I can get more information about this benchmark.

We have about six different UNIX systems that we have ported our
real time data acquisition and control software to.  We have developed
a benchmark that we are using to measure the extent of "real time" on
these plarforms as relates to our application.

We would like to compare the results of our benchmarking with the realstone
benchmark(s).  It would be nice if there was enough correspondence
between them so that we could predict the performance of our software
on platforms we haven't yet ported to from the realstone numbers for these
platforms.

Fred Putnam, LABTECH
tel: 508-657-5400
FAX: 508-658-9972
labtech!fred@uunet.uu.net -or- putnam@Control.COM
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rlk@telesoft.com (Bob Kitzberger @sation) (05/22/91)

Another appripriate benchmark for many real-time systems is the
Hartstone suite, which measures (generally speaking) real-time 
responsiveness of a multi-tasking OS.  The load for tasks in Hartstone
is the Whetstone benchmark.  It certainly has turned out to be
an excellent test and benchmark for our Ada tasking kernel.

Hartstone has been written in portable Ada, and is being adapted
by some folks (or so I hear) to run on real-time kernels.  It was
developed at CMU's SEI for the Real-Time Embedded Systems Testbed
Project.  

Contact:

	Software Engineering Institute
	Real-Time Embedded Systems Testbed Project
	Carnegie Mellon  University
	Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Ask for document CMU/SEI-89-TR-23 for an excellent overview.

	.Bob.
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