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In article <36230004@hpindwa.cup.hp.com> raj@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (Rick Jones) writes:
>Has anything been proposed to SPEC to measure a systems performance in
>non-standalone situations? Examples would be measures such as
>nhfsstones, and perhaps an improved ttcp (well...). The really
>interesting part would likely be DCE performance, as that seems to be
>a big step towards distributed computing. Admittedly, the problem
>becomes bigger, because the testbed is a group of systems, but isn't
>that the 'future' of computing?

Running benchmarks in a stand-alone environment is easy (or at least not
of insurmountable difficulty) for others to reproduce.

But how do you specify a standard non-standalone environment?  And how are
others supposed to reproduce it with with any degree of accuracy?  I bet
this would be an even bigger window of opportunity for manufacturers who
already do sneaky things with their benchmarks.

I think it's a very good idea though, if someone can figure out a
"foolproof" way to do it.  I just wanted to point out that it's, um,
nontrivial.

	Mike Haertel
	mjh@research.att.com