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Title: Benchmarking your benchmarks: a user's perspective

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OSTI ID:6933214

This paper is intended for anyone faced with the responsibility for computer hardware or software selection. The content is biased toward administrative considerations, although some technical issues are presented. The basic goal is to promote a role for benchmarking in the computer acquisition process that is significantly broader than that commonly employed. We attempt to do this by showing how a thorough benchmarking effort (in the usual sense) did not provide sufficient information to accurately predict user satisfaction and productivity. We describe other measures of a system's properties that should be included in benchmarking.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
6933214
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-82-2651; CONF-821202-4; ON: DE83000648
Resource Relation:
Conference: 13. Computer Measurement Group conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 14 Dec 1982
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English