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Performance Benchmarks For Custom Applications: Considerations And Strategies, Braulio J. Cabral Sep 2006

Performance Benchmarks For Custom Applications: Considerations And Strategies, Braulio J. Cabral

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The motivation for this research came from the need to solve a problem affecting not only the company used in this study, but also the many other companies in the information technology industry having similar problem: how to conduct performance benchmarks for custom applications in an effective, unbiased, and accurate manner. This paper presents the pros and cons of existing benchmark methodologies. It proposes a combination of the best characteristics of these benchmarks into a methodology that addresses the problem from an application perspective considering the overall synergy between operating system and software. The author also discusses a software design …