morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) (04/13/91)
I've been maintaining an archive of benchmark source code at wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) for about 2-3 months now, and it has been reasonably popular (according to wuarchive's statistics). My thanks to everyone who has supplied source code; anyone with additions is welcome to send them to me. When I originally opened the archive, I decided not to archive results. This decision was based on several points: -- There is no guarantee that all results submitted to me have been generated under the same circumstances, i.e. single-user mode, native I/O devices (as opposed to NFS/RFS resources, which could skew I/O benchmarks), -- I received *widely* variant results for the same make/model of system. This is probably a result of subtle differences such as those described in the comment above. -- Many systems are available in single- and multi-processor models. For instance, the AT&T StarServer E may include anywhere from 2 to 8 80486 processors. Interpreting results from these product lines will be confusing at best and mis- leading at worst. -- People were sending me results transcribed from trade rags, sales literature, et cetera. I don't feel that these reflect end-user installations; therefore, these results could only be used as a "best case" metric for that type of system. If the demand is there, I am willing to archive results. I would request that the report include installation/configuration-dependent information such as that mentioned above. I will probably archive the results as digests of electronic mail. Of course, the entire library of results would be a 'grain of salt' collection at best. Discussion/comments/suggestions? Wes ps> My thanks to those who have been so generous with their advice. This is my first attempt a maintaining an ftp archive. I'm always open to suggestions and/or comments. -- morgan@ms.uky.edu |Wes Morgan, not speaking for| ....!ukma!ukecc!morgan morgan@engr.uky.edu |the University of Kentucky's| morgan%engr.uky.edu@UKCC morgan@ie.pa.uky.edu |Engineering Computing Center| morgan@wuarchive.wustl.edu Curator of the benchmark archives at wuarchive.wustl.edu <128.252.135.4>