Title :
BTU: a host communication benchmark
Author :
Maly, Kurt J. ; Gupta, Ajay K. ; Mynam, Satish
Author_Institution :
Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA
fDate :
5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The BTU, a fully automated benchmark measures concurrent activities on both the workstation and network to more realistically assess a workstation´s communication performance under a particular load. It provides detailed reports to evaluate hardware and software configurations and identify their communication bottlenecks
Keywords :
computer network reliability; performance evaluation; workstations; BTU; communication bottlenecks; communication performance; concurrent activities; fully automated benchmark; host communication benchmark; software configurations; workstation; Application software; Benchmark testing; Bit rate; Distributed computing; Hardware; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Protocols; Throughput; Workstations;
