Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking with Realistic Applications - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262050668 ISBN 13: 9780262050661

Publisher: MIT Press, 2001

Synopsis

The book discusses rationales for creating and updating benchmarks, the use of benchmarks in academic research, benchmarking methodologies, the relation of SPEC benchmarks to other benchmarking activities, shortcomings of current benchmarks, and the need for further benchmarking efforts.

Performance evaluation and benchmarking are of concern to all computer-related disciplines. A benchmark is a standard program or set of programs that can be run on different computers to give an accurate measure of their performance. This book covers a variety of aspects of computer performance evaluation, with a focus on Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmarks. SPEC is a nonprofit organization whose members represent industry, academia, and other organizations. The book discusses rationales for creating and updating benchmarks, the use of benchmarks in academic research, benchmarking methodologies, the relation of SPEC benchmarks to other benchmarking activities, shortcomings of current benchmarks, and the need for further benchmarking efforts.

Contributors
Brian Armstrong, Frederica Darema, Edward S. Davidson, Sylvia Dieckmann, Jozo J. Dujmovic, Rudolf Eigenmann, J. Kelly Flanagan, Greg Gaertner, Jonathan Geisler, John Gustafson, Urs Hölzle, Shih-Hao Hung, Kathryn S. McKinley, Reinhard Riedl, Faisal Saied, Frank Sorenson, Mark Straka, Valerie Taylor, Olivier Temam, Rajat Todi, Reinhold Weicker

About this title

About the Author

Rudolf Eigenmann is Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262050668
• ISBN 13: 9780262050661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Eigenmann Rudolf