Measuring the performance of personal computers

Author

Sammons, John M. ; Sauer, Charles H.

Author_Institution

IBM Corp., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

24-28 Feb. 1992

Firstpage

311

Lastpage

313

Abstract

Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo) was founded in May 1991 to create objective performance benchmarks that are representative of the typical business personal computer environment. These benchmarks are intended to provide an accurate means of comparing the performance of industry standard architecture hardware systems while executing commercially available applications. BAPCo benchmarks are designed to measure overall system performance. Three initial workloads are planned: standalone, multitasking and network. The standalone workload will use DOS and Windows applications and will be BAPCo´s first product. BAPCo will also publish a newsletter periodically with current benchmark data. Since the standalone workload will produce a single number to characterize performance for each category, users may compare system performance in each category, if desired. BAPCo workloads will help users make informed hardware platform performance comparisons that will relate to their normal business environment.<>

Keywords

performance evaluation; BAPCo benchmarks; DOS; Windows applications; business personal computer; industry standard architecture; multitasking workload; network workload; performance benchmarks; personal computer performance measurement; standalone workload; system performance; Application software; Benchmark testing; Business; Companies; Computer architecture; Graphics; Laboratories; Marketing and sales; Microcomputers; Multitasking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '92. Thirty-Seventh IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2655-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1992.186730

Filename

186730