Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: hansd@brask.cs.chalmers.se (Hans Djurfeldt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Benchmarking workstations, user-relevant tests Keywords: Software Message-ID: <586@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 25 Jul 89 08:29:44 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 15 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 87, message 7 of 18 I'm locking for benchmarks relevant for software engineers, NOT only CPU-intensive things like Dhrystone, Sieve or any of those recently announced by SPEC. My ambition is to measure things like keyclick expansion time when editing in different workloads (simulate multi- window work sessions), I/O, Graphics and Network I/O. My project runs for this summer and the following workstations will be compared (available inhouse): DECstation 3100, VAXstation 3200, SUN Sparcstation,SONY NWS-1530, DataGeneral AViiON 300, SUN 3/50 3/60 and IBM RT. Everything will be written in C and csh. Sincerely Hans Djurfeldt S-411 01 GOTHENBURG Sweden hansd@brask.cs.chalmers.se