Characterizing computer performance with a single number
Communications of the ACM
The design of a scalable, fixed-time computer benchmark
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Communications of the ACM
A philosophical perspective on performance measurement
Computer benchmarks
HINT: A new way to measure computer performance
HICSS '95 Proceedings of the 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Performance of Various Computers Using Standard Linear Equations Software
Performance of Various Computers Using Standard Linear Equations Software
Measuring High Performance Computing Productivity
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Measuring High Performance Computing Productivity
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Can software engineering solve the HPCS problem?
Proceedings of the second international workshop on Software engineering for high performance computing system applications
Research ethics and computer science: an unconsummated marriage
SIGDOC '06 Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Evaluation of UPC programmability using classroom studies
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Partitioned Global Address Space Programing Models
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We define an approach to benchmarking, "purpose-based benchmarks", which explicitly and comprehensively measures the ability of a computing system to reach a goal of human interest. This contrasts with the traditional approach of defining a benchmark as a task to be timed, or as the rate at which some activity is performed. Purpose-based benchmarks are more difficult to create than traditional benchmarks, but have a profound advantage that makes them well worth the trouble: they provide a well-defined quantitative measure of the productivity of a computer system.