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Peter Fenton (venture capitalist) - Benchmark 1 Fenton's investing style has been summarized as, “Wait until right before the company’s rising ‘adoption curve’ meets the declining ‘risk curve.’” https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Peter Fenton (venture capitalist) - Benchmark 1 He has also led Benchmark's investments in Wily Technology (acquired by CA Technologies), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco), Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), Xensource (acquired by Citrix) Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!), Minted, and Quip. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Peter Fenton (venture capitalist) - Benchmark 1 In addition to Twitter and Yelp, Fenton also serves on the boards of Zendesk, New Relic, Polyvore, Lithium Technologies, Engine Yard, Zuora, Hortonworks, elasticsearch, and Optimizely. As of September 2013, Fenton was a board member of at least five companies moving towards an initial public offering within the next two years: Lithium Technologies, Zendesk, Zuora, New Relic, and Hortonworks. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Marketing operations - Benchmarking & Best Practices 1 Benchmarking may be a one-off event, but is often treated as an ongoing process in which organizations continually seek to improve their practices. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Marketing operations - Benchmarking & Best Practices 1 Marketing Operations Cross-Company Alliance (MOCCA ) is a professional network for Marketing Operations professionals. It is intended to facilitate the exchange of best practice information. MOCCA is a community for sharing practical experience between Marketing Operations professionals. MOCCA aims to create both professional development for members and development of the marketing operations profession. MOCCA provides as exchange forum for real-world ideas, solutions, and best practices. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Shared services - Benchmarking and measurement 1 In establishing and running a shared service, benchmarking and measurement is considered by some as a necessity. Benchmarking is the comparison of the service provision usually against best in class. The measurement occurs by using agreed key performance indicators (KPIs). Although the amount of KPIs chosen differs greatly it is generally accepted that fewer than 10 carefully chosen KPIs will deliver the best results. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Shared services - Benchmarking and measurement 1 Organizations do attempt to define benchmarks for processes and business operations. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Shared services - Benchmarking and measurement 1 Benchmarking can be used to achieve different goals including: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Shared services - Benchmarking and measurement 1 1. To drive performance improvements using benchmarks as a means for setting performance targets that are met either through incremental performance improvements or transformational change. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Shared services - Benchmarking and measurement 1 - Strategic: with a focus on a long term horizon; and https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Shared services - Benchmarking and measurement 1 - Tactical: with a focus on the short and medium term https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Shared services - Benchmarking and measurement 1 2. To focus an organization on becoming world class with processes that deliver the highest levels of performance that are better than those of its peer group. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Automated theorem proving - Benchmarks and competitions 1 The quality of implemented systems has benefited from the existence of a large library of standard benchmark examples — the Thousands of Problems for Theorem Provers (TPTP) Problem Library — as well as from the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC), a yearly competition of first-order systems for many important classes of first-order problems. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Automated theorem proving - Benchmarks and competitions 1 E is a high-performance prover for full first- order logic, but built on a purely equational calculus, developed primarily in the automated reasoning group of Technical University of Munich. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Automated theorem proving - Benchmarks and competitions 1 Otter, developed at the Argonne National Laboratory, is the first widely used high- performance theorem prover. It is based on first-order resolution and paramodulation. Otter has since been replaced by Prover9, which is paired with Mace4. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Automated theorem proving - Benchmarks and competitions 1 SETHEO is a high-performance system based on the goal-directed model elimination calculus. It is developed in the automated reasoning group of Technical University of Munich. E and SETHEO have been combined (with other systems) in the composite theorem prover E- SETHEO. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Automated theorem proving - Benchmarks and competitions 1 Vampire is developed and implemented at Manchester University by Andrei Voronkov and Krystof Hoder, formerly also by Alexandre Riazanov. It has won the CADE ATP System Competition in the most prestigious CNF (MIX) division for eleven years (1999, 2001–2010). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Automated theorem proving - Benchmarks and competitions 1 Waldmeister is a specialized system for unit-equational first-order logic. It has won the CASC UEQ division for the last fourteen years (1997–2010). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Automated theorem proving - Benchmarks and competitions 1 SPASS is a first order logic theorem prover with equality. This is developed by the research group Automation of Logic, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Algorithmic efficiency - Benchmarking: measuring performance 1 Benchmarks can be used by customers when comparing various products from alternative suppliers to estimate which product will best suit their specific requirements in terms of functionality and performance https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Algorithmic efficiency - Benchmarking: measuring performance 1 Some benchmarks provide opportunities for producing an analysis comparing the relative speed of various compiled and interpreted languages for example and The Computer Language Benchmarks Game compares the performance of implementations of typical programming problems in several programming languages. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Algorithmic efficiency - Benchmarking: measuring performance 1 (Even creating "do it yourself" benchmarks to get at least some appreciation of the relative performance of different programming languages, using a variety of user specified criteria, is quite simple to produce as this "Nine language Performance roundup" by Christopher W. Cowell-Shah demonstrates by example) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

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Benchmark (computing) 1 This article is about the use of benchmarks in computing, for other uses see benchmark. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) 1 In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it. The term 'benchmark' is also mostly utilized for the purposes of elaborately-designed benchmarking programs themselves. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) 1 Benchmarking is usually associated with assessing performance characteristics of computer hardware, for example, the floating point operation performance of a CPU, but there are circumstances when the technique is also applicable to software. Software benchmarks are, for example, run against compilers or database management systems. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) 1 Benchmarks provide a method of comparing the performance of various subsystems across different chip/system architectures. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) 1 Test suites are a type of system intended to assess the correctness of software. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 As computer architecture advanced, it became more difficult to compare the performance of various computer systems simply by looking at their specifications. Therefore, tests were developed that allowed comparison of different architectures. For example, Pentium 4 processors generally operate at a higher clock frequency than Athlon XP processors, which does not necessarily translate to more computational power. A slower processor, with regard to clock frequency, can perform as well as a processor operating at a higher frequency. See BogoMips and the megahertz myth. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 Benchmarks are designed to mimic a particular type of workload on a component or system. Synthetic benchmarks do this by specially created programs that impose the workload on the component. Application benchmarks run real-world programs on the system. While application benchmarks usually give a much better measure of real- world performance on a given system, synthetic benchmarks are useful for testing individual components, like a hard disk or networking device. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 Benchmarks are particularly important in CPU design, giving processor architects the ability to measure and make tradeoffs in microarchitectural decisions. For example, if a benchmark extracts the key algorithms of an application, it will contain the performance-sensitive aspects of that application. Running this much smaller snippet on a cycle-accurate simulator can give clues on how to improve performance. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 Prior to 2000, computer and microprocessor architects used SPEC to do this, although SPEC's Unix-based benchmarks were quite lengthy and thus unwieldy to use intact. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 Benchmarks are now regularly used by compiler companies to improve not only their own benchmark scores, but real application performance. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 CPUs that have many execution units — such as a superscalar CPU, a VLIW CPU, or a reconfigurable computing CPU — typically have slower clock rates than a sequential CPU with one or two execution units when built from transistors that are just as fast. Nevertheless, CPUs with many execution units often complete real- world and benchmark tasks in less time than the supposedly faster high-clock-rate CPU. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 Given the large number of benchmarks available, a manufacturer can usually find at least one benchmark that shows its system will outperform another system; the other systems can be shown to excel with a different benchmark. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 Manufacturers commonly report only those benchmarks (or aspects of benchmarks) that show their products in the best light. They also have been known to mis- represent the significance of benchmarks, again to show their products in the best possible light. Taken together, these practices are called bench-marketing. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Purpose 1 Ideally benchmarks should only substitute for real applications if the application is unavailable, or too difficult or costly to port to a specific processor or computer system. If performance is critical, the only benchmark that matters is the target environment's application suite. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Benchmarking is not easy and often involves several iterative rounds in order to arrive at predictable, useful conclusions. Interpretation of benchmarking data is also extraordinarily difficult. Here is a partial list of common challenges: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Vendors tend to tune their products specifically for industry-standard benchmarks. Norton SysInfo (SI) is particularly easy to tune for, since it mainly biased toward the speed of multiple operations. Use extreme caution in interpreting such results. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Some vendors have been accused of "cheating" at benchmarks — doing things that give much higher benchmark numbers, but make things worse on the actual likely workload. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Many benchmarks focus entirely on the speed of computational performance, neglecting other important features of a computer system, such as: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark specifications partially address these concerns by specifying ACID property tests, database scalability rules, and service level requirements. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Even a tiny deviation from the benchmark package results in a much higher price in real world experience. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Facilities burden (space, power, and cooling). When more power is used, a portable system will have a shorter battery life and require recharging more often. A server that consumes more power and/or space may not be able to fit within existing data center resource constraints, including cooling limitations. There are real trade-offs as most semiconductors require more power to switch faster. See also performance per watt. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 In some embedded systems, where memory is a significant cost, better code density can significantly reduce costs. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Vendor benchmarks tend to ignore requirements for development, test, and disaster recovery computing capacity. Vendors only like to report what might be narrowly required for production capacity in order to make their initial acquisition price seem as low as possible. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Benchmarks are having trouble adapting to widely distributed servers, particularly those with extra sensitivity to network topologies. The emergence of grid computing, in particular, complicates benchmarking since some workloads are "grid friendly", while others are not. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Users can have very different perceptions of performance than benchmarks may suggest. In particular, users appreciate predictability — servers that always meet or exceed service level agreements. Benchmarks tend to emphasize mean scores (IT perspective), rather than maximum worst-case response times (real-time computing perspective), or low standard deviations (user perspective). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Many server architectures degrade dramatically at high (near 100%) levels of usage — "fall off a cliff" — and benchmarks should (but often do not) take that factor into account. Vendors, in particular, tend to publish server benchmarks at continuous at about 80% usage — an unrealistic situation — and do not document what happens to the overall system when demand spikes beyond that level. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Many benchmarks focus on one application, or even one application tier, to the exclusion of other applications. Most data centers are now implementing virtualization extensively for a variety of reasons, and benchmarking is still catching up to that reality where multiple applications and application tiers are concurrently running on consolidated servers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 There are few (if any) high quality benchmarks that help measure the performance of batch computing, especially high volume concurrent batch and online computing. Batch computing tends to be much more focused on the predictability of completing long-running tasks correctly before deadlines, such as end of month or end of fiscal year. Many important core business processes are batch-oriented and probably always will be, such as billing. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Challenges 1 Benchmarking institutions often disregard or do not follow basic scientific method. This includes, but is not limited to: small sample size, lack of variable control, and the limited repeatability of results. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 user's application software (i.e.: MIS) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 Designed to measure the performance of a very small and specific piece of code. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 popular kernel: Livermore loop https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 linpack benchmark (contains basic linear algebra subroutine written in FORTRAN language) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 results are represented in MFLOPS https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 programs designed to measure performance of a computer's basic components https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 automatic detection of computer's hardware parameters like number of registers, cache size, memory latency https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 Procedure for programming synthetic benchmark: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 These were the first general purpose industry standard computer benchmarks. They do not necessarily obtain high scores on modern pipelined computers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 Database benchmarks: to measure the throughput and response times of database management systems (DBMS') https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Types of benchmarks 1 Parallel benchmarks: used on machines with multiple cores, processors or systems consisting of multiple machines https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Industry standard (audited and verifiable) 1 Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Industry standard (audited and verifiable) 1 Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Industry standard (audited and verifiable) 1 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), in particular their SPECint and SPECfp https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Industry standard (audited and verifiable) 1 Coremark: Embedded computing standard benchmark https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 DEISA Benchmark Suite: scientific HPC applications benchmark https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 Fhourstones: an integer benchmark https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 HINT: designed to measure overall CPU and memory performance https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 Iometer: I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 Linpack, traditionally used to measure FLOPS https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 NBench: synthetic benchmark suite measuring performance of integer arithmetic, memory operations, and floating-point arithmetic https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 Phoronix Test Suite: open-source cross- platform benchmarking suite for Linux,OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OSX and Windows. It includes a number of other benchmarks included on this page to simplify execution. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 Tak (function): a simple benchmark used to test recursion performance https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 TATP Benchmark: Telecommunication Application Transaction Processing Benchmark https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 Rodinia: Benchmark for parallel architectures based on accelerators. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 STREAM: Benchmark for measuring memory bandwidth of a system. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Open source benchmarks 1 LLCbench: Low Level Architectural Characterization Benchmark Suite, used to measure CPU and memory performance of a system. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Microsoft Windows benchmarks 1 Windows System Assessment Tool, included with Microsoft Windows Vista and later Windows Operating Systems, providing an index for consumers to rate their systems easily https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Others 1 iCOMP, the Intel comparative microprocessor performance, published by Intel https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Others 1 Performance Rating, modeling scheme used by AMD and Cyrix to reflect the relative performance usually compared to competing products. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Others 1 VMmark, a virtualization benchmark suite. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Others 1 Sunspider, a Browser speed test https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Others 1 BreakingPoint Systems, modeling and simulation of network application traffic for benchmarking servers and network equipment https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Others 1 Glaesemann, K. R.; van Dam, H. J. J.; Carr, J. F. (2011). "MSC Benchmark 1.0". Pacific Northwest National Lab., a benchmark for testing massively parallel computer systems under simultaneously heavy network, memory, and CPU loads. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Further reading 1 Gray, Jim, ed. (1993). The Benchmark Handbook for Database and Transaction Systems. Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems (2nd ed.). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. ISBN 1-55860-292-5. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Further reading 1 Scalzo, Bert; Kline, Kevin; Fernandez, Claudia; Burleson, Donald K.; Ault, Mike (2007). Database Benchmarking Practical Methods for Oracle & SQL Server. ISBN 0-9776715-3-4. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (computing) - Further reading 1 Nambiar, Raghunath; Poess, Meikel, eds. (2009). Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642- 10423-7. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

OpenMP - Benchmarks 1 There are some public domain OpenMP benchmarks for users to try. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

OpenMP - Benchmarks 1 OpenMP validation suite https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Information Security Forum - Benchmarking program 1 Organizations can participate in the Continuous Benchmarking service at any time and can use the tool to: assess their security performance across a range of different environments; compare their security status against other organisations; and measure their performance against the ISF's 2011 Standard of Good Practice, ISO/IEC 27002, and COBIT version 4.1. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking 1 In the process of best practice benchmarking, management identifies the best firms in their industry, or in another industry where similar processes exist, and compares the results and processes of those studied (the "targets") to one's own results and processes https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking 1 Benchmarking is used to measure performance using a specific indicator (cost per unit of measure, productivity per unit of measure, cycle time of x per unit of measure or defects per unit of measure) resulting in a metric of performance that is then compared to others. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking 1 Benchmarking may be a one-off event, but is often treated as a continuous process in which organizations continually seek to improve their practices. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Benefits and use 1 In 2008, a comprehensive survey on benchmarking was commissioned by The Global Benchmarking Network, a network of benchmarking centers representing 22 countries. Over 450 organizations responded from over 40 countries. The results showed that: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Benefits and use 1 Mission and Vision Statements and Customer (Client) Surveys are the most used (by 77% of organizations) of 20 improvement tools, followed by SWOT analysis (72%), and Informal Benchmarking (68%). Performance Benchmarking was used by 49% and Best Practice Benchmarking by 39%. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Benefits and use 1 The tools that are likely to increase in popularity the most over the next three years are Performance Benchmarking, Informal Benchmarking, SWOT, and Best Practice Benchmarking. Over 60% of organizations that are not currently using these tools indicated they are likely to use them in the next three years. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Collaborative benchmarking 1 Another example is the UK construction industry which has carried out benchmarking since the late 1990s again through its industry association and with financial support from the UK Government. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Procedure 1 Robert Camp (who wrote one of the earliest books on benchmarking in 1989) developed a 12-stage approach to benchmarking. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Procedure 1 Identify data sources https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Procedure 1 Identify problem areas: Because benchmarking can be applied to any business process or function, a range of research techniques may be required https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Procedure 1 Identify other industries that have similar processes: For instance, if one were interested in improving hand-offs in addiction treatment one would identify other fields that also have hand-off challenges. These could include air traffic control, cell phone switching between towers, transfer of patients from surgery to recovery rooms. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Procedure 1 Identify organizations that are leaders in these areas: Look for the very best in any industry and in any country. Consult customers, suppliers, financial analysts, trade associations, and magazines to determine which companies are worthy of study. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Procedure 1 Survey companies for measures and practices: Companies target specific business processes using detailed surveys of measures and practices used to identify business process alternatives and leading companies. Surveys are typically masked to protect confidential data by neutral associations and consultants. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Procedure 1 Visit the "best practice" companies to identify leading edge practices: Companies typically agree to mutually exchange information beneficial to all parties in a benchmarking group and share the results within the group. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Procedure 1 Implement new and improved business practices: Take the leading edge practices and develop implementation plans which include identification of specific opportunities, funding the project and selling the ideas to the organization for the purpose of gaining demonstrated value from the process. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Costs 1 Visit Costs - This includes hotel rooms, travel costs, meals, a token gift, and lost labor time. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Costs 1 Time Costs - Members of the benchmarking team will be investing time in researching problems, finding exceptional companies to study, visits, and implementation. This will take them away from their regular tasks for part of each day so additional staff might be required. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Costs 1 Benchmarking Database Costs - Organizations that institutionalize benchmarking into their daily procedures find it is useful to create and maintain a database of best practices and the companies associated with each best practice now. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Costs 1 The cost of benchmarking can substantially be reduced through utilizing the many internet resources that have sprung up over the last few years. These aim to capture benchmarks and best practices from organizations, business sectors and countries to make the benchmarking process much quicker and cheaper. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Technical/product benchmarking 1 Its use is well-developed within the automotive industry ("automotive benchmarking"), where it is vital to design products that match precise user expectations, at minimal cost, by applying the best technologies available worldwide https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Benchmarking can be internal (comparing performance between different groups or teams within an organization) or external (comparing performance with companies in a specific industry or across industries). Within these broader categories, there are three specific types of benchmarking: 1) Process benchmarking, 2) Performance benchmarking and 3) strategic benchmarking. These can be further detailed as follows: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Process benchmarking - the initiating firm focuses its observation and investigation of business processes with a goal of identifying and observing the best practices from one or more benchmark firms. Activity analysis will be required where the objective is to benchmark cost and efficiency; increasingly applied to back-office processes where outsourcing may be a consideration. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Financial benchmarking - performing a financial analysis and comparing the results in an effort to assess your overall competitiveness and productivity. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Benchmarking from an investor perspective- extending the benchmarking universe to also compare to peer companies that can be considered alternative investment opportunities from the perspective of an investor. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Benchmarking in the public sector - functions as a tool for improvement and innovation in public administration, where state organizations invest efforts and resources to achieve quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the services they provide. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Performance benchmarking - allows the initiator firm to assess their competitive position by comparing products and services with those of target firms. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Product benchmarking - the process of designing new products or upgrades to current ones. This process can sometimes involve reverse engineering which is taking apart competitors products to find strengths and weaknesses. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Strategic benchmarking - involves observing how others compete. This type is usually not industry specific, meaning it is best to look at other industries. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Functional benchmarking - a company will focus its benchmarking on a single function to improve the operation of that particular function. Complex functions such as Human Resources, Finance and Accounting and Information and Communication Technology are unlikely to be directly comparable in cost and efficiency terms and may need to be disaggregated into processes to make valid comparison. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Best-in-class benchmarking - involves studying the leading competitor or the company that best carries out a specific function. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Operational benchmarking - embraces everything from staffing and productivity to office flow and analysis of procedures performed. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Types 1 Energy benchmarking - process of collecting, analysing and relating energy performance data of comparable activities with the purpose of evaluating and comparing performance between or within entities. Entities can include processes, buildings or companies. Benchmarking may be internal between entities within a single organization, or - subject to confidentiality restrictions - external between competing entities. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Tools 1 Benchmarking software can be used to organize large and complex amounts of information. Software packages can extend the concept of benchmarking and competitive analysis by allowing individuals to handle such large and complex amounts or strategies. Such tools support different types of benchmarking (see above) and can reduce the above costs significantly. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Metric benchmarking 1 Such benchmarking studies are used to create yardstick comparisons, allowing outsiders to evaluate the performance of operators in an industry https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking - Metric benchmarking 1 One of the biggest challenges for metric benchmarking is the variety of metric definitions used among companies or divisions. Definitions may change over time within the same organization due to changes in leadership and priorities. The most useful comparisons can be made when metrics definitions are common between compared units and do not change so improvements can be verified. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Comparison of programming languages - Benchmarks 1 site warns against, but contains a large number of micro-benchmarks of reader- contributed code snippets, with an interface that generates various charts and tables comparing specific programming languages and types of tests. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

PostgreSQL - Benchmarks and performance 1 Many informal performance studies of PostgreSQL have been done. Performance improvements aimed at improving scalability started heavily with version 8.1. Simple benchmarks between version 8.0 and version 8.4 showed that the latter was more than 10 times faster on read-only workloads and at least 7.5 times faster on both read and write workloads. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

PostgreSQL - Benchmarks and performance 1 The first industry-standard and peer- validated benchmark was completed in June 2007 using the Sun Java System Application Server (proprietary version of GlassFish) 9.0 Platform Edition, UltraSPARC T1-based Sun Fire server and Postgres 8.2. This result of 778.14 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard compares favourably with the 874 JOPS@Standard with Oracle 10 on an Itanium-based HP-UX system. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

PostgreSQL - Benchmarks and performance 1 In August 2007, Sun submitted an improved benchmark score of 813.73 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. With the system under test at a reduced price, the price/performance improved from $US 84.98/JOPS to $US 70.57/JOPS. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

PostgreSQL - Benchmarks and performance 1 The default configuration of PostgreSQL uses only a small amount of dedicated memory for performance-critical purposes such as caching database blocks and sorting. This limitation is primarily because older Operating Systems required kernel changes to allow allocating large blocks of shared memory. PostgreSQL.org provides advice on basic recommended performance practice in a wiki. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

PostgreSQL - Benchmarks and performance 1 In April 2012, Robert Haas of EnterpriseDB demonstrated PostgreSQL 9.2's linear CPU scalability using a server with 64 cores. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Hybrid drive - Benchmarks 1 SSHD benchmarks show the SSHDs do not offer SSD performance on random read/write and sequential read/write, however they do offer some improvement over HDDs for application startup and shutdown. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Digital watermarking - Evaluation and benchmarking 1 The evaluation of digital watermarking schemes may provide detailed information for a watermark designer or for end-users, therefore, different evaluation strategies exist. Often used by a watermark designer is the evaluation of single properties to show, for example, an improvement. Mostly, end-users are not interested in detailed information. They want to know if a given digital watermarking algorithm may be used for their application scenario, and if so, which parameter sets seems to be the best. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Capital 1 The maverick firm differs from most VC firms, which are named for their founders and are structured hierarchically; Benchmark is a lean operation in which its six full-time partners share profits equally. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Capital 1 The Menlo Park, California-based firm announced in May 2012 it would be expanding by opening an office with more than 10,000 square feet in San Francisco’s emerging tech corridor, the Mid-Market, San Francisco|Mid-Market neighborhood. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Capital - General partners 1 The firm's general partners include Matt Cohler, Bruce Dunlevie, Peter Fenton (venture capitalist)|Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Kevin Harvey (venture capitalist)|Kevin Harvey, and Mitch Lasky. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Capital - Investments 1 http://www.benchmark.com/companies Benchmark made its first China deal, Baixing, in 2009. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Capital - Investments 1 Since early 2011, Benchmark has had 24 exits, including 10 IPOs and 14 mergers and acquisitions, representing a total market value of more than $33 billion (as of November 2013). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Capital - Investments 1 In September 2013, Benchmark invested $7 million in CyanogenMod, which is based on Google's Android (Operating System)|Android Open Source Project. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Matt Cohler - Benchmark 1 At Benchmark, Cohler has backed the firm’s investments in Dropbox (service)|Dropbox, Asana (web application)|Asana, Quora, Domo, Edmodo, ResearchGate, 1stdibs, Peixe Urbano, Couchsurfing, Baixing, and Zendesk. In 2011, he led a $7 million round of funding for Instagram, which agreed in April 2012 to be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Matt Cohler - Benchmark 1 Cohler sits on the boards of Asana, Peixe Urbano, Domo Quora, ResearchGate, Instagram, 1stDibs, and Couchsurfing. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 In the last couple of decades there has arisen a crowded toolbox of quantitative methods used to assess sustainability — including measures of resource use like life cycle assessment, measures of consumption like the ecological footprint and measurements of quality of environmental governance like the Environmental Performance Index. The following is a list of quantitative tools used by sustainability scientists - the different categories are for convenience only as defining criteria will intergrade. It would be too difficult to list all those methods available at different levels of organisation so those listed here are at for the global level only. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 : A benchmark is a point of reference for a measurement. Once a benchmark is established it is possible to assess trends and measure progress. Baseline global data on a range of sustainability parameters is available at list of global sustainability statistics https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 : A sustainability index is an aggregate sustainability indicator that combines multiple sources of data. There is a Consultative Group on Sustainable Development Indices https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Education Index https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Environmental Sustainability Index https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Environmental Vulnerability Index https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Genuine Progress Indicator https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 ::(formerly Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Human Development Index (see List of countries by HDI) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Legatum Prosperity Index https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Sustainable Governance Indicators. The Status Index ranks 30 OECD countries in terms of sustainable reform performance https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Water Poverty Index [ http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/ph/documen ts/narf_054.pdf] Sullivan, C.A. et al. (eds) 2003. The water poverty index: development and application at the community scale. Natural Resources Forum 27: 189-199. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Many environmental problems ultimately relate to the human effect on those global biogeochemical cycles that are critical to life. Over the last decade monitoring these cycles has become a more urgent target for research: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Sustainability auditing and reporting are used to evaluate the sustainability performance of a company, organization, or other entity using various performance indicators.Hill, J. 1992. Towards Good Environmental Practice. The Institute of Business Ethics, London. Popular auditing procedures available at the global level include: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :* Triple Bottom Line Accounting https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :* input-output analysis can be used for any level of organization with a financial budget. It relates environmental impact to expenditure by calculating the resource intensity of goods and services. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 * 'Development and NGO project auditing' https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Litmus test type indicators are also used in the development and NGO community to test conformity and compliance with the guidelines of sustainable human development and the international Rio Declaration of 1992. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :* Sustainable development indicator for NGOs and Other Organizations“Sustainable Development Indicators for NGOs and Other Organization, David Lempert and Nguyen Nhu Hue, International Journal of Sustainable Societies, 1:1, 2008. Use link: http://inderscience.metapress.com/app/ho me/contribution.asp?referrer=parentbackto =issue,3,6;journal,1,1;linkingpublicationres ults,1:121226,1 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 ** Global Reporting Initiative Global Reporting Initiative modelling and monitoring procedures. Many of these have only just been developed. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 ** State of the Environment reporting provides general background information on the environment and is progressively including more indicators. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 **European sustainability Eurostat. (2007). Measuring progress towards a more sustainable Europe. 2007 monitoring report of the EU sustainable development strategy.[ http://passthrough.fw- notify.net/download/360813/ http://ec.europa.eu/sustainable/docs/estat_2 007_sds_en.pdf] Retrieved on 2009-04-14. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :Some accounting methods attempt to include environmental costs rather than treating them as Externality|externalities https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :* Green accounting https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Sustainability measurement - Benchmarks, indicators, indexes, auditing etc. 1 :* Sustainability economics [ http://www.sustainabilityeconomics.de/publ ications_vjh.html]|Publications on sustainability measurement used in sustainability economics https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Oil prices - Benchmark pricing 1 After the collapse of the OPEC- administered pricing system in 1985, and a short lived experiment with netback pricing, oil-exporting countries adopted a market-linked pricing mechanism. First adopted by PEMEX in 1986, market-linked pricing received wide acceptance and by 1988 became and still is the main method for pricing crude oil in international trade. The current reference, or pricing markers, are Brent Crude| https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Benchmarking 1 An example of benchmarking is the UNFCCC's original target of Annex I Parties limiting their greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000. Goldemberg et al. (1996) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Benchmarking 1 commented on the economic implications of this target. Although the target applies equally to all Annex I Parties, the economic costs of meeting the target would likely vary between Parties. For example, countries with initially high levels of efficient energy use|energy efficiency might find it more costly to meet the target than countries with lower levels of energy efficiency. From this perspective, the UNFCCC target could be viewed as equity (economics)|inequitable, i.e., unfair. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Benchmarking 1 Benchmarking has also been discussed in relation to the first-round emissions targets specified in the Kyoto Protocol (see views on the Kyoto Protocol and Kyoto Protocol and government action). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Segmentation (image processing) - Segmentation benchmarking 1 * [http://mosaic.utia.cas.cz Prague On-line Texture Segmentation Benchmark]Haindl, M. – Mikeš, S. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2008.476111 8 Texture Segmentation Benchmark], Proc. of the 19th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition. IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp. 1–4 ISBN 978-1-4244-2174-9 ISSN 1051-4651 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Segmentation (image processing) - Segmentation benchmarking 1 * [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/P rojects/CS/vision/bsds/ The Berkeley Segmentation Dataset and Benchmark] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Fastra II - Specifications and benchmarks 1 Like the Fastra I, the Fastra II uses a Lian Li PC-P80 Armorsuit case, which has 10 expansion slots. The motherboard in the Fastra II was at that time the only workstation motherboard that had seven full-sized PCI Express x16 slots. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Fastra II - Specifications and benchmarks 1 The memory modules were initially six 2 GB modules, but were later upgraded to 4 GB each, for a total of 24 GB. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Fastra II - Specifications and benchmarks 1 Instead of an eighth dual-GPU video card, the single-GPU GTX 275 is in the computer because, out of all the video cards in the Fastra II, the GTX 275 is the only one the Fastra II's BIOS can fully initialize. The total amount of GPUs is 13. The video cards together bring 12 Tera-|teraFLOPS|flops of computing power. Four of the six GTX 295 video cards have 2 Printed Circuit Board|PCBs, while the other two have only 1 PCB. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Fastra II - Specifications and benchmarks 1 The benchmarks were performed on the Fastra II, the Fastra I, a 512-core cluster (consisting of Opteron CPUs), an Nvidia Tesla C1060 workstation card on an Intel Core i7 940 CPU, and on an Intel Core i7 940 CPU itself https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Collective investment scheme - Investment aims and benchmarking 1 Each fund has a defined investment goal to describe the remit of the investment manager and to help investors decide if the fund is right for them. The investment aims will typically fall into the broad categories of 'Income (value)' investment or 'Growth' investment. Income or value based investment tends to select stocks with strong income streams, often more established businesses. Growth investment selects stocks that tend to reinvest their income to generate growth. Each strategy has its critics and proponents; some prefer a blend approach using aspects of each. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Collective investment scheme - Investment aims and benchmarking 1 Funds are often distinguished by 'asset-based categories' such as equity, bonds, property, etc. Also, perhaps most commonly funds are divided by their geographic markets or themes. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Collective investment scheme - Investment aims and benchmarking 1 *The largest markets—United States|U.S., Japan, Europe, United Kingdom|UK and Far East are often divided into smaller funds e.g. US large caps, Japanese smaller companies, European Growth, UK mid caps etc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Collective investment scheme - Investment aims and benchmarking 1 *Themed funds— Technology, Healthcare, Socially responsible funds. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Collective investment scheme - Investment aims and benchmarking 1 In most instances whatever the investment aim the fund manager will select an appropriate index or combination of indices to measure its performance against; e.g. FTSE 100. This becomes the 'benchmark' to measure success or failure against. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Forwarding plane - Benchmarking performance 1 In the Internet Engineering Task Force, two working groups in the Operations Maintenance Area deal with aspects of performance. The Interprovider Performance Measurement (IPPM) group focuses, as its name would suggest, on operational measurement of services. Performance measurements on single routers, or narrowly defined systems of routers, are the province of the Benchmarking Working Group (BMWG). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Forwarding plane - Benchmarking performance 1 RFC 2544 is the key BMWG document.[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.tx tBenchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices], RFC 2544, Scott Bradner|S. Bradner J. McQuade,March 1999 A classic RFC 2544 benchmark uses half the router's (i.e., the device under test (DUT)) ports for input of a defined load, and measures the time at which the outputs appear at the output ports. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Benchmark comparisons 1 * 3% to 5% increase in CPU performance when compared clock for clock https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Benchmark comparisons 1 * 25% to 68% increase in integrated GPU performance. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Rightware - Benchmarks 1 Rightware develops benchmarks for embedded devices to analyze the performance of embedded devices, which produces scores with higher numbers indicating better performance. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Phoronix - OpenBenchmarking.org 1 OpenBenchmarking.org is a new cloud based service created to work with the Phoronix Test Suite. It is a collaborative platform that allows users to share their hardware and software benchmarks through an organized online interface. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Browser speed test - Benchmark.js 1 A robust benchmarking library that works on nearly all JavaScript platforms, supports high-resolution timers, and returns statistically significant results. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Australian Public Service - Benchmarking the APS 1 In November 2009 KPMG published a report benchmarking Australian Public Service performance against international public services https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Homology modeling - Benchmarking 1 Continuously running experiments that do not have prediction 'seasons' focus mainly on benchmarking publicly available webservers https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Opinion poll - Benchmark polls 1 A benchmark poll is generally the first poll taken in a campaign. It is often taken before a candidate announces their bid for office but sometimes it happens immediately following that announcement after they have had some opportunity to raise funds. This is generally a short and simple survey of likely voters. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Opinion poll - Benchmark polls 1 A benchmark poll shows them what types of voters they are sure to win, those who they are sure to lose, and everyone in- between those two extremes https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPARC Enterprise - Benchmark record 1 On April 17, 2007, a Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 achieved 1.032 TFLOPS on the LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPARC Enterprise - Benchmark record 1 single system supercomputer at that time. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPARC Enterprise - Benchmark record 1 On May 2, 2008, Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server achieved a world performance record on the TPC-H data warehousing benchmark at the 1 Terabyte scale factor using the Oracle Database. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPARC Enterprise - Benchmark record 1 As of February 19, 2009, the SPARC Enterprise M8000 holds the 64-thread world performance records on the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation|SPEC OMP2001 benchmark, both for medium https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 The winners on these benchmarks often come from the class of context-mixing compression software. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 The benchmarks listed in the 5th edition of the Handbook of Data Compression (Springer, 2009) are:David Salomon, Giovanni Motta, (with contributions by WavPack|David Bryant), Handbook of Data Compression, 5th edition, Springer, 2009, ISBN 1-84882-902-7, pp. 16ndash;18. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 The site also has a list of pointers to other benchmarks.[http://www.maximumcompre ssion.com/benchmarks/benchmarks.php Lossless Data Compression Benchmarks (links and spreadsheets)] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * [http://studwww.ugent.be/~jdebock/ UCLC] (the ultimate command-line compressors) benchmark by Johan de Bock is another actively maintained benchmark including over 100 programs. The winners in most tests usually are PAQ programs and WinRK, with the exception of lossless audio encoding and grayscale image compression where some specialized algorithms shine. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * [http://www.squeezechart.com/ Squeeze Chart] by Stephan Busch is another frequently updated site. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * The [http://emilcont.webs.com/benchmark.htm EmilCont] benchmarks by Berto Destasio are somewhat outdated having been most recently updated in 2004. A distinctive feature is that the data set is not public, to prevent optimizations targeting it specifically. Nevertheless, the best ratio winners are again the PAQ family, SLIM and WinRK. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * The [http://compression.ca/act/ Archive Comparison Test] (ACT) by Jeff Gilchrist included 162 DOS/Windows and 8 Macintosh lossless compression programs, but it was last updated in 2002. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * [http://www.compression.ru/artest/index_e. html The Art Of Lossless Data Compression] by Alexander Ratushnyak provides a similar test performed in 2003. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 Matt Mahoney, in his February 2010 edition of the free booklet Data Compression Explained, additionally lists the following:http://nishi.dreamhosters.com/u/d ce2010-02-26.pdf, pp. 3ndash;5 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * The Calgary Corpus dating back to 1987 is no longer widely used due to its small size, although Leonid A. Broukhis still maintains [http://mailcom.com/challenge/ The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge], which started in 1996. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * The [http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html Large Text Compression Benchmark] and the similar Hutter Prize both use a trimmed Wikipedia XML UTF-8 data set. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * The [http://mattmahoney.net/dc/uiq/ Generic Compression Benchmark], maintained by Mahoney himself, test compression on random data. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * Sami Runsas (author of NanoZip) maintains [http://compressionratings.com Compression Ratings], a benchmark similar to Maximum Compression multiple file test, but with minimum speed requirements. It also offers a calculator that allows the user to weight the importance of speed and compression ratio. The top programs here are fairly different due to speed requirement. In January 2010, the top programs were NanoZip followed by FreeArc, CCM (software)|CCM, flashzip, and 7-Zip. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 * The [http://heartofcomp.altervista.org/MOC/MO C.htm Monster of Compression] benchmark by N. F. Antonio tests compression on 1Gb of public data with a 40 minute time limit. As of Dec. 20, 2009 the top ranked archiver is NanoZip 0.07a and the top ranked single file compressor is ccmx 1.30c, both context mixing. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless compression - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 [http://compressionratings.com/ Compression Ratings] publishes a chart summary of the frontier in compression ratio and time.[http://compressionratings.com/rating _sum.html Visualization of compression ratio and time] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Dd (Unix) - Benchmarking drive performance 1 To make drive benchmark test and analyze the sequential (and usually single- threaded) system read and write performance for 1024-byte blocks : https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 benchmark (computing)|Benchmarking is a way of testing CPU speed. Examples include SPECint and SPECfp, developed by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, and ConsumerMark developed by the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium EEMBC. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 * Instructions per second - Most consumers pick a computer architecture (normally Intel IA32 architecture) to be able to run a large base of pre-existing pre-compiled software. Being relatively uninformed on computer benchmarks, some of them pick a particular CPU based on operating frequency (see Megahertz Myth). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 * FLOPS - The number of floating point operations per second is often important in selecting computers for scientific computations. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 * Performance per watt - System designers building parallel computing|parallel computers, such as Google search technology#Current hardware|Google, pick CPUs based on their speed per watt of power, because the cost of powering the CPU outweighs the cost of the CPU itself. [http://www.eembc.org/benchmark/consum er.asp?HTYPE=SIM][http://archive.is/2012 0716063544/http://news.com.com/Power+ could+cost+more+than+servers,+Google+ warns/2100-1010_3-5988090.html] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 * Some system designers building parallel computers pick CPUs based on the speed per dollar. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 * System designers building real-time computing systems want to guarantee worst-case response. That is easier to do when the CPU has low interrupt latency and when it has deterministic response. (Digital signal processor|DSP) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 * Computer programmers who program directly in assembly language want a CPU to support a full featured instruction set. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 * Low power - For systems with limited power sources (e.g. solar, batteries, human power). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 * Environmental impact - Minimizing environmental impact of computers during manufacturing and recycling as well during use. Reducing waste, reducing hazardous materials. (see Green computing). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

CPU design - Performance analysis and benchmarking 1 Some of these measures conflict. In particular, many design techniques that make a CPU run faster make the performance per watt, performance per dollar, and deterministic response much worse, and vice versa. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Energy audit - Benchmarking 1 As mentioned before, benchmarking is also necessary to identify buildings presenting interesting energy saving potential. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Energy audit - Benchmarking 1 An important issue in benchmarking is the use of performance indexes to characterize the building. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Energy audit - Benchmarking 1 * Comfort indexes, comparing the actual comfort conditions to the comfort requirements; https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Energy audit - Benchmarking 1 * Energy indexes, consisting in energy demands divided by heated/conditioned area, allowing comparison with reference values of the indexes coming from regulation or similar buildings; https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Energy audit - Benchmarking 1 * Energy demands, directly compared to “reference” energy demands generated by means of simulation tools. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 'These are some higher education institutions around the world that focus on global engineering education' https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *[http://www.uri.edu/iep International Engineering Program] at the University of Rhode Island https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *[http://tree.utm.my/ Centre for Engineering Education], [http://www.utm.my Universiti Teknologi Malaysia], Malaysia https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *[http://www.engr.utexas.edu/academics/st udyabroad University of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering], USA https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *[http://ewbuw.org/ University of Wisconsin Madison, College of Engineering], USA https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *University of British Columbia, Canada https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *[http://www.ieec.uned.es/ Spanish University of Distance Education - UNED, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department - DIEEC], Spain https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *[http://www.deccanherald.com/content/46137/numb er-engineers-rise.html Deccan Herald] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *[http://www.hs-pforzheim.de/De- de/Technik/Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen/Wir tschaftsingenieurwesen/Seiten/Inhaltseite. aspx Pforzheim University], Germany https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Global Engineering Education - Benchmark Organizations 1 *[http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/globalEng/Pages/default.aspx Ben-Gurion University of the Negev], Israel https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Quacquarelli Symonds - Benchmarking 1 QS draws on the data collected for the QS World University Rankings and other information which it gathers to offer a benchmarking services to universities, comparing them with their peers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Interbank lending market - Benchmarks for short-term lending rates 1 These benchmark rates are also commonly used in corporate cashflow analysis as discount rates https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Interbank lending market - Benchmarks for short-term lending rates 1 In general, offshore reference rates such as the US dollar Libor rate are preferred to onshore benchmarks since the former are less likely to be distorted by government regulations such as capital controls and deposit insurance. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Innovation Union Scoreboard - Benchmarking with global competitors 1 (Last data: 2014)[http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/polici es/innovation/files/ius/ius-2014_en.pdf Innovation Union Scoreboard 2014, p.29] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Peter Fenton (venture capitalist) - Benchmark 1 In addition to Twitter and Yelp, Fenton also serves on the boards of (in alphabetical order) Docker (software)|Docker (formerly DotCloud), elasticsearch, Engine Yard, Hortonworks, Lithium Technologies, New Relic, Optimizely, Polyvore, Quip, Revinate, Zendesk, and Zuora. As of September 2013, Fenton was a board member of at least five companies moving towards an initial public offering within the next two years: Lithium Technologies, Zendesk, Zuora, New Relic, and Hortonworks. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Peter Fenton (venture capitalist) - Benchmark 1 In February 2014, he was awarded the TechCrunch Crunchie for Venture Capitalist of the Year http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/10/peter- fenton-crunchies http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/10/peter- fenton-crunchies/ https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - SPEC Benchmark Suites 1 The benchmarks aim to test real-life situations. There are several benchmarks testing Java scenarios, from simple computation (SPECjbb) to a full system with Java EE, database, disk, and network (SPECjEnterprise). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - SPEC Benchmark Suites 1 The SPEC CPU suites test Central processing unit|CPU performance by measuring the run time of several programs such as the compiler GNU Compiler Collection|gcc, the chemistry program GAMESS_(US)|gamess, and the weather program Weather_Research_and_Forecasting_model|WRF. The various tasks are equally weighted; no attempt is made to weight them based on their perceived importance. An overall score is based on a geometric mean. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECapc for 3ds Max™ 2011, performance evaluation software for systems running Autodesk 3ds Max 2011. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECapcSM for Lightwave 3D 9.6, performance evaluation software for systems running NewTek LightWave 3D v9.6 software. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPEC CPU2006, combined performance of CPU, memory and compiler. Designed to provide performance measurements that can be used to compare compute-intensive workloads on different computer systems, SPEC CPU2006 contains two benchmark suites: CINT2006 for measuring and comparing compute-intensive integer performance, and CFP2006 for measuring and comparing compute-intensive floating point performance. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 ** CINT2006 (SPECint), testing Integer (computer science)|integer arithmetic, with programs such as compilers, interpreters, word processors, chess programs etc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 ** CFP2006 (SPECfp), testing floating point performance, with physical simulations, 3D graphics, image processing, computational chemistry etc. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPEC CPUv6, The CPU Search Program seeks to encourage those outside of SPEC to assist them in locating applications that could be used in the next CPU-intensive benchmark suite, currently designated as SPEC CPUv6. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECjbb2013, evaluates the performance of server side Java by emulating a three-tier client/server system (with emphasis on the middle tier). The SPECjbb2013 benchmark has been developed from the ground up to measure performance based on the latest Java application features. It is relevant to all audiences who are interested in Java server performance, including JVM vendors, hardware developers, Java application developers, researchers and members of the academic community. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECjEnterprise2010, a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology-based application servers. SPECjEnterprise2010 measures full- system performance for Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 or later application servers, databases and supporting infrastructure and expands the scope of the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECjms2007, Java Message Service performance. SPECjms2007 is the first industry-standard benchmark for evaluating the performance of enterprise message-oriented middleware servers based on JMS (Java Message Service). It provides a standard workload and performance metrics for competitive product comparisons, as well as a framework for indepth performance analysis of enterprise messaging platforms. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECjvm2008, measuring basic Java performance of a Java Runtime Environment on a wide variety of both client and server systems. SPECjvm2008 is a benchmark suite for measuring the performance of a Java Runtime Environment (JRE), containing several real life applications and benchmarks focusing on core java functionality. The SPECjvm2008 workload mimics a variety of common general purpose application computations. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECapc, performance of several 3D-intensive popular applications on a given system https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPEC MPI2007, for evaluating performance of parallel systems using MPI (Message Passing Interface) applications. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPEC OMP2001 V3.2, for evaluating performance of parallel systems using OpenMP (http://www.openmp.org) applications. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECpower_ssj2008, evaluates the energy efficiency of server systems. SPECpower_ssj2008 is the first industry- standard SPEC benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class computers. The initial benchmark addresses the performance of server-side Java, and additional workloads are planned. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT). The Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT) was created by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) at the request of the US Environmental Protection Agency. It is intended to measure server energy efficiency, initially as part of the second generation of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR for Computer Servers program. Designed to be simple to configure and use via a comprehensive graphical user interface, the SERT uses a set of synthetic worklets to test discrete system components such as memory and storage, providing detailed power consumption data at different load levels. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 Other SPEC benchmarks incorporating power measurement https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECsfs2008, File server throughput and response time supporting both Network_File_System_(protocol)|NFS and CIFS protocol access. SPEC's benchmark designed to evaluate the speed and request-handling capabilities of file servers utilizing the NFSv3 and CIFS protocols. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECsip_Infrastructure2011, Session_Initiation_Protocol|SIP server performance https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 SPECviewperf® 11, performance of an OpenGL 3D graphics system, tested with various rendering tasks from real applications https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 Previous versions of SPECapc and SPECviewperf benchmarks https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 * SPECvirt_sc2013 (SPECvirt), evaluates the performance of datacenter servers used in virtualized server consolidation environments. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 Virtualization. SPEC's updated benchmark addressing performance evaluation of datacenter servers used in virtualized server consolidation. SPECvirt_sc2013 measures the end-to-end performance of all system components including the hardware, virtualization platform, and the virtualized guest operating system and application software. The benchmark supports hardware virtualization, operating system virtualization, and hardware partitioning schemes. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 'High Performance Computing, OpenMP, MPI, OpenACC, OpenCL' https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 SPEC ACCEL, SPEC ACCEL tests performance with a suite of computationally intensive parallel applications running under the OpenCL and OpenACC APIs. The suite exercises the performance of the accelerator, host CPU, memory transfer between host and accelerator, support libraries and drivers, and compilers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 SPEC MPI2007, MPI2007 is SPEC's benchmark suite for evaluating MPI- parallel, floating point, compute intensive performance across a wide range of cluster and SMP hardware. The suite consists of the initial MPIM2007 suite and MPIL2007, which contains larger working sets and longer run times than MPIM2007. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 SPEC OMP2012, The successor to the OMP2001, designed for measuring performance using applications based on the OpenMP 3.1 standard for shared- memory parallel processing. OMP2012 also includes an optional metric for measuring energy consumption. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 SPECsip_infrastructure2011. SPEC's benchmark designed to evaluate a system's ability to act as a SIP server supporting a particular SIP application. The application modeled is a VoIP deployment for an enterprise, telco, or service provider, where the SIP server performs proxying and registration. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT). Intended to measure server energy efficiency, initially as part of the second generation of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR for Computer Servers program. Designed to be simple to configure and use via a comprehensive graphical user interface, the SERT uses a set of synthetic worklets to test discrete system components such as memory and storage, providing detailed power consumption data at different load levels. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 Chauffeur Worklet Development Kit (WDK). Chauffeur was designed to simplify the development of workloads for measuring both performance and energy efficiency. Because Chauffeur contains functions that are common to most workloads, developers of new workloads can focus on the actual business logic of the application, and take advantage of Chauffeur's capabilities for configuration, run-time, data collection, validation, and reporting. Chauffeur was initially designed to meet the requirements of the SERT. However, SPEC recognized that the framework would also be useful for research and development purposes. The Chauffeur framework is now being made available as the Chauffeur Worklet Development Kit (WDK). This kit can be used to develop new workloads (or worklets in Chauffeur terminology). Researchers can also use the WDK to configure worklets to run in different ways, in order to mimic the behavior of different types of applications. These features can be used in the development and assessment of new technologies such as power management capabilities. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Current Benchmarks 1 PTDaemon. The SPEC PTDaemon software is used to control power analyzers in benchmarks which contain a power measurement component. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Committees for Future Benchmarks 1 Handheld, SPEC has formed a committee chartered for the development of, and support for, a compute intensive benchmark suite for handheld devices. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPEC - Committees for Future Benchmarks 1 SOA. SPEC has formed a new subcommittee to develop standard methods of measuring performance for typical middleware, database and hardware deployments of applications based on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics 1 'Benchmark Electronics Inc' is an electronics manufacturing services|EMS, original design manufacturer|ODM, and original equipment manufacturer|OEM company[http://www.bench.com/viewer/ser vices.asp Services Overview] Benchmark Electronics Official Site based in Angleton, TX in Greater Houston. It provides contract manufacturing services. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics - History 1 Initially a subsidiary of Intermedics, a medical implant manufacturer, Benchmark was sold to Electronic Investors Corporation in 1986. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics - History 1 The company made an initial public offering|IPO in 1990. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics - History 1 In 2007 Benchmark Electronics acquired Pemstar Inc, a contract manufacturing|contract manufacturer. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics - History 1 Smaller than rivals, including Flextronics and Foxconn, as of 2010 Benchmark may be increasingly seeking to move away from traditional, computing-related electronics manufacturing services|EMS products to more-profitable ones like medical devices.[http://www.zacks.com/mediaroom /zer_get_pdf.php?r=Z562826 Benchmark Electronics, Inc.] zacks.com, January 14, 2010 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics - Customers 1 Benchmark Electronics's customers have included Sun Microsystems, Medtronic, EMC Corporation, iRobot, and Silicon Graphics. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics - Products 1 While more mundane computing-related products make up the majority of its manufactures as of 2008, the company also makes telecommunications equipment and medical devices. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics - Production bases and facilities 1 Benchmark Electronics has operations in ten countries. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Electronics - Production bases and facilities 1 The company has production bases in Almelo, Netherlands; Angleton, TX; Bangkok, Thailand; Brasov, Romania; Campinas, Brazil; Dublin, Ireland; Dunseith, ND; Guadalajara, Mexico; Huntsville, AL; Penang, Malaysia;[http://www.bench.com/viewer/world wide_site_PenangMalaysia.asp Worldwide Locations ref name=pbase [http://www.bench.com/viewer/worldwide.asp Worldwide Locations] Benchmark Electronics Official Site https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Benchmark comparisons 1 * 3% to 6% increase in CPU performance when compared clock for clock https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 'Benchmark Recordings' is a record label that was founded in 2002 by music industry veterans Bill Coben and Denny Bruce. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 The initial catalog included the first four albums by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, which were originally released in the late 1970s and early 1980s on the Takoma Records label and distributed by Chrysalis Records. The early albums featured Kim Wilson on vocals and harmonica and Jimmie Vaughan on guitar. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 A compilation of live recordings and new material titled Tacos Deluxe was released in 2004. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 A CD title by Mike Bloomfield, a live recording from 1978, was released in late 2008. The songs on the album are a catalog of blues history, spanning acoustic, Chicago, and blues- rock styles. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 In 2011 Benchmark released a Best of collection documenting live and studio recordings from their fist decade, titled, The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special. The album features a collection of songs from the original tracks from their first four albums, live versions, and the hits from their later albums: Tuff Enuff and Powerful Stuff. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 8002-2 CD The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Girls Go Wild https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 2003-2 CD The Fabulous Thunderbirds, What's the Word? https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 2004-2 CD The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Butt Rockin' https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 2005-2 CD The Fabulous Thunderbirds, T-Bird Rhythm https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 2006-2 CD The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tacos Deluxe https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 2007-2 CD Mike Bloomfield, I'm With You Always https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark Recordings 1 2008-2 CD The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

SPECint - Benchmarks 1 The SPECint2006 test suite consists of 12 benchmark programs, designed to test exclusively the integer performance of the system. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) 1 Technically, the term bench mark is only used to refer to survey markers that designate a certain elevation, but hobbyists often use the term benchmarks to include triangulation stations or reference marks https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) 1 some of these marks (triangulation stations and GPS points, loosely also referred to as benchmarks) have precise adjusted coordinates (latitude and longitude) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Sources of data on U.S. marks 1 benchmark hunters, is only a snapshot of the marks that the NGS had documented by the year 2000, and has not been updated since then https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Sources of data on U.S. marks 1 Specialized hobbyist websites (like [http://www.geocaching.com/mark/ Geocaching.com]) FAQ and its Benchmark Hunting forum can provide more information. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Useful Tools 1 In the U.S., benchmark hunters often file two different reports on marks they find https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Useful Tools 1 Benchmark hunters also frequently carry a compass (to follow directions gleaned from the data sheet), a probe (like a long- bladed screwdriver) to search for buried marks, a trowel (or a small shovel) to uncover buried marks, a whisk broom (to clear away debris), and one or more tape measures of various lengths, used in taping out referenced distances found on the data sheets. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Useful Tools 1 Handheld GPS receivers are often used to get within a few yards probable error of a mark that has 'adjusted coordinates'. Metal detectors are useful for finding marks which have become deeply buried over time. Use of several of the tools in combination is sometimes required, but many marks are set on the surface of sidewalks, buildings, walls, boulders, or monuments and can often be found without special tools. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Description of Markers 1 In the U.S., a survey disk is usually engraved with the name of the agency that placed it. The name of the mark (or the station it locates) is usually stamped into its surface, along with the date on which it was set (or re-set, since markers that have been destroyed can be replaced). Disks marked with a 'triangle' are known as triangulation station disks, since they mark the position of the primary point used for triangulation (or map- making). Disks marked with 'an arrow' are called 'reference marks (RMs)', since they point (or refer) to the principal station that may be located many feet away. A triangulation station often had two or three reference marks. Reference marks were set to enable the primary station to be re-established (or re-set) if needed. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Description of Markers 1 Sometimes a survey mark is made much easier to find by the presence nearby of a 'witness post', a stake (or a small sign) driven into the ground and used to draw attention to (and to warn against disturbing) the mark. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Description of Markers 1 Care must be taken to assure that a found disk is the one described on the data sheet, so as to avoid false reports. A reference mark may be mistakenly reported as the station mark. A disk set in 1945 may be confused with a similarly named disk that was set in 1946 by a different agency, and so on. A RESET elevation benchmark should not be reported as the original. Sorting out these differences and reporting them correctly is an important part of the hobby. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Typical Locations 1 In the U.S., markers are often found at the summits of mountains, along ridge lines, or on bare rock ledges with commanding views, because such sites provided good vantage points for triangulation lines to distant points. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Typical Locations 1 U.S. elevation bench marks were often placed along rail lines or roads that provided good sight lines for leveling. All active and some abandoned railroad rights of way are private property, actively patrolled by railroad police. 'Active lines are too hazardous for benchmark hunting!' https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Typical Locations 1 A common location is the top level of the abutment a highway bridge or its wingwalls. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Typical Locations 1 As part of triangulation networks, 'intersection station's were sighted. They are a tall, prominent and well-defined points like a smokestack, the peak of a water tower, or a church spire. However, many of these objects have been altered or replaced by similar nearby structures and no longer mark the original location, so careful identification is required. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - Typical Locations 1 U.S. bench marks were commonly placed on public buildings, such as court houses, post offices, city halls, and older schools. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - In the UK 1 UK benchmarks tend to be on the corners of pubs, churches, and other public buildings, as well as farm buildings, railway bridges, and private houses especially those near a road junction. However, any building may be used, as well as natural features such as a rock outcrop. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - In the UK 1 Searching for trig points is more popular than hunting Benchmark (surveying)|benchmarks in the UK, but there is a considerable overlap in participation https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmarking (geolocating) - In the UK 1 There are 6550 such pillars listed in the T:UK database. While most of them have fallen into disuse, about 184 of them are currently used in the Passive Station network. These are maintained so they can be used as accurately located anchor points for differential GPS comparisons, and are re-surveyed every five years to calibrate for any geological movements of the ground. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) 1 There are three primary benchmarks, WTI, Brent Blend, and Dubai https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) 1 Benchmarks are used because there are many List of crude oil products|different varieties and grades of crude oil. Using benchmarks makes referencing types of oil easier for sellers and buyers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) 1 There is always a spread between WTI, Brent and other blends due to the transportation cost. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - West Texas Intermediate (WTI) 1 West Texas Intermediate is used primarily in the U.S. It is light (API gravity) and sweet (low-sulfur) thus making it ideal for producing products like low-sulfur gasoline and low-sulfur diesel. Brent is not as light or as sweet as WTI but it is still a high- grade crude. The OPEC basket is slightly heavier and more sour than Brent. As a result of these gravity and sulfur differences, before 2011 WTI typically traded at a dollar or two premium to Brent and another dollar or two premium to the OPEC basket. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - West Texas Intermediate (WTI) 1 Since 2011, WTI has traded at a significant discount to Brent. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - West Texas Intermediate (WTI) 1 Edmonton Par and Western Canadian Select (WCS) are benchmarks crude oils for the Canadian market. Both Edmonton Par and West Texas Intermediate are high- quality low sulphur crude oils with API gravity levels of around 40°. In contrast, WCS is a heavy crude oil with an API gravity level of 20.5°. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - Brent Blend 1 Brent Crude is used primarily in Europe and the OPEC market basket, used around the world. This benchmark is a mix of crude oil from 15 different oil fields in the North Sea. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - Dubai and Oman 1 Dubai Crude is also known as Fateh is a light sour crude oil extracted from Dubai. It is produced in the Emirate of Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai's only refinery, at Jebel Ali, takes condensates as feedstocks, and therefore all of Dubai's crude production is exported. For many years it was the only freely traded oil in the Middle East, but gradually a spot market has developed in Omani crude as well. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - Dubai and Oman 1 Whether the DME will be successful, and whether Omani futures prices will be adopted by producers and buyers as a benchmark, remain to be seen. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - Contracts 1 Because of its excellent liquidity and price transparency, the contract is used as a principal international pricing benchmark. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - Contracts 1 The first futures contracts on crude oil were traded in 1983, with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) both attempting to take advantage of the government's de-regulation of crude oil. CBOT's initial contracts had delivery problems, so customers abandoned it for Nymex.[http://books.google.com/books?id =D2y7SftShx8C The Asylum], Leah McGrath Goodman, 2011, HarperCollins, p90-91 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - Contracts 1 Crude oil became the world's most actively traded commodity, and the NYMEX Division light sweet crude oil futures contract becoming the world's most liquid form for crude oil trading, as well as the world's largest-volume futures contract trading on a physical commodity. Additional risk management and trading opportunities are offered through options on the futures contract; calendar spread options; crack spread options on the pricing differential of heating oil futures and crude oil futures and gasoline futures and crude oil futures; and average price options. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (crude oil) - Contracts 1 The contract trades in units of 1,000 barrels, and the delivery point is Cushing, Oklahoma, which is also accessible to the international spot markets via pipelines. The contract provides for delivery of several grades of domestic and internationally traded foreign crudes, and serves the diverse needs of the physical market. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark - Business 1 *Benchmark (crude oil), used in pricing crude oil https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark - Geology 1 *Benchmark (surveying), a point of reference for a measurement https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark - Music Label 1 *Benchmark Recordings, a music label with CDs by the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Mike Bloomfield. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark - Science 1 *Benchmark (science), comparing simulations with empirical data or comparing different simulations with each other. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark - Technology 1 *Benchmark (computing), the result of running a computer program to assess performance https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark - Other uses 1 *Benchmarking, evaluating performance in organizations https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark - Other uses 1 *Benchmark Electronics, an electronics manufacturer https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) 1 The term 'bench mark', or 'benchmark', originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that Surveying|surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron could be placed to form a bench for a Level staff|leveling rod, thus ensuring that a leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. These marks were usually indicated with a chiseled Broad arrow|arrow below the horizontal line. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) 1 The term is generally applied to any item used to mark a point as an elevation reference. Frequently, bronze or aluminum disks are set in stone or concrete, or on rods driven deeply into the earth to provide a stable elevation point. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) 1 The Height#In geodesy|height of a benchmark is calculated relative to the heights of nearby benchmarks in a network extending from a fundamental benchmark. A fundamental benchmark is a point with a precisely known relationship to the level datum of the area, typically mean sea level. The position and height of each benchmark is shown on large-scale maps. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) 1 The terms height and elevation are often used interchangeably, but in many jurisdictions they have specific meanings; height commonly refers to a local or relative difference in the vertical (such as the height of a building), whereas elevation refers to the difference from a nominated reference surface (such as sea-level, or a mathematical/geodetic model that approximates the sea level known as the geoid). Elevation may be specified as normal height (above a reference ellipsoid), orthometric height, or dynamic height which have slightly different definitions. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Other types of survey marks 1 In the United Kingdom, triangulation points are often set in large concrete markers, which as well as functioning as a triangulation point, have a benchmark set into the side https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 Benchmarks are typically placed (monumented) by a government agency or private survey firm, and many governments maintain a register of these marks so that the records are available to all. These records are usually in the form of a geographically searchable database (computer or map-based), with links to sketches, diagrams, photos of the marks, and any other technical details. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 Government agencies that place and maintain records of benchmarks include: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 **Natural Resources Canada Geodetic Survey Division ([http://www.geod.nrcan.gc.ca/hist_e.php History of the Geodetic Survey Division]) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 **Institut Géographique National (:fr:Institut géographique national|IGN on Wiki FR) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 **[http://87.30.244.175/index.php Istituto Geografico Militare - Servizio Geodetico] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 **Geographical Survey Institute of Japan|Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 **Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)|Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 **The U.S. National Geodetic Survey|National Geodetic Survey (NGS; formerly U.S. Coast Geodetic Survey) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 **The United States Geological Survey (USGS) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Agencies responsible for benchmarks 1 **The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (surveying) - Image gallery 1 Image :Bench mark at Saint Goussaud, Limousin, France, by Institut Geographique National.jpg| Bench mark at Saint Goussaud, Limousin, France, by Institut Géographique National. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (venture capital firm) - Investments 1 Other notable investments include AOL, 1- 800-Flowers, Ebags.com, Friendster, JAMDAT, MetaCafe, Palm Computing, Seeking Alpha, ServiceSource, Xapo, and Zipcar.http://www.benchmark.com/compan ies Benchmark made its first China deal, Baixing, in 2009. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark (venture capital firm) - Investments 1 Since early 2011, Benchmark has had 25 exits, including 10 IPOs and 15 mergers and acquisitions, representing a total market value of more than $55 billion (as of January 2014). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark price 1 'Benchmark price' (no abbreviation) is the price per unit of quantity of a commodity traded in the international marketplace, set by the country or producers' organization that consistently exports the largest quantity or volume of the commodity or in a marketplace such as the London Metal Exchange. This price is set periodically, usually monthly and serves as a guideline for international trade in the commodity. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark price 1 The term benchmark can be applied to many aspects of public concern, such as quality, services, attitudes and others, denoting the highest standards achieved in such spheres. For example, a school or university could be cited as setting the benchmark for education. A hotel could be cited as setting the benchmark for quality of service. The phrase international benchmark price, however, is synonymous with prices of commodities in international trade. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark price 1 Benchmark prices apply to all commodities. An example is the benchmark prices that apply to crude oil in the international marketplace. See Benchmark (crude oil). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark price 1 It is not mandatory for exporting countries or importing countries to use the benchmark price as international trade is based on favourable prices. Traders use the benchmark price as a guide for spot trading and trading in commodity futures. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Benchmark price 1 A commodity will sell for more or less than the benchmark price depending on how it compares to the benchmark commodity (percentage of undesirable components such as sulfur, for example) and where it is to be delivered, if other than the benchmark price's pdelivery point. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Network on a chip - NoC benchmarks 1 NoC development and studies require comparing different proposals and options. And NoC traffic patterns are developed to help such evaluations. Existing NoC benchmarks include NoCBench and MCSL NoC Traffic Patterns.[http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eexu/index _files/traffic.htm MCSL NoC Traffic Patterns] https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

List of benchmarking methods and software tools 1 Benchmarking requires the use of specific valuation methods. With evaluation is meant the evaluation the level of achieving the target for a particular evaluation item. There are general methods respectively approaches as well as IT-supported software tools that enable an effective and efficient work. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

List of benchmarking methods and software tools - Benchmarking methods 1 There are many benchmarking methods each having different analytical focus. The methods are mostly known and will be shown in the following summary.Peter Kairies: So analysieren Sie Ihre Konkurrenz. expert Verlag, Renningen 2001, 3-8169-1977-4. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

List of benchmarking methods and software tools - Benchmarking software tools 1 There are a number software tools that allow the support of different kinds of Benchmarking|benchmarking types. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Best Practices, LLC - Clients/Benchmark Partners 1 Leading clients of Best Practices, LLC include 86% of Fortune 100 companies, especially from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and health care industry. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Lossless - Lossless compression benchmarks 1 The winners on these benchmarks often come from the class of context-mixing compression software. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Arithmetic coding - Benchmarks and other technical characteristics 1 Every programmatic implementation of arithmetic encoding has a different compression ratio and performance. While compression ratios vary only a little (usually under 1%),For instance, discuss versions of arithmetic coding based on real-number ranges, integer approximations to those ranges, and an even more restricted type of approximation that they call binary quasi-arithmetic coding. They state that the difference between real and integer versions is negligible, prove that the compression loss for their quasi-arithmetic method can be made arbitrarily small, and bound the compression loss incurred by one of their approximations as less than 0.06%. See:. the code execution time can vary by a factor of 10. Choosing the right encoder from a list of publicly available encoders is not a simple task because performance and compression ratio depend also on the type of data, particularly on the size of the alphabet (number of different symbols). One of two particular encoders may have better performance for small alphabets while the other may show better performance for large alphabets. Most encoders have limitations on the size of the alphabet and many of them are specialised for alphabets of exactly two symbols (0 and 1). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Absolute return - Benchmark 1 Although absolute return funds are sometimes considered not to have a benchmark, there is a common one: the funds should do better than short-dated government bonds (e.g. United States Treasury security#Treasury bill|T-bills in the United States). For example, if such cash instruments yield 15%, at the same time a certain fund returns 5%, that would be considered not very good. In the case where the cash rate is close to zero, such as the early 2010s decade, this makes little difference. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Industry Classification Benchmark 1 The ICB uses a system of 10 industries, partitioned into 19 supersectors, which are further divided into 41 sectors, which then contain 114 subsectors.[http://www.icbenchmark.com Industry Classification Benchmark main page][http://www.icbenchmark.com/ICBDo cs/ICB_%20Product_Spec_Nov2011.pdf Industry Classification Benchmark structure] (pdf) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Industry Classification Benchmark 1 The ICB is used globally (though not universally) to divide the market into increasingly specific categories, allowing investors to compare industry trends between well-defined subsectors. The ICB replaced the legacy FTSE Group|FTSE and Dow Jones and Company|Dow Jones classification systems on 3 January 2006, and is used today by the NASDAQ, NYSE and several other markets around the globe. All ICB sectors are represented on the New York Stock Exchange except Equity Investment Instruments (8980) and Nonequity Investment Instruments (8990).http://www.nyse.com/indexes/nyain dex.csv https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Industry Classification Benchmark 1 Dow Jones divested itself of its 50% interest in the ICB in 2011 and announced it was creating its own version of it. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Industry Classification Benchmark 1 Note that the terms industry and sector are reversed from the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) taxonomy and the more common usage by professionals. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

GFSI - Benchmarking 1 Within GFSI, benchmarking is a “procedure by which a food safety-related scheme is compared to the GFSI Guidance Document.[http://www.mygfsi.com/gfsifiles/ Guidance_Document_Sixth_Edition_Versi on_6.1.pdf GFSI Guidance Document]” https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

GFSI - Benchmarking 1 Back in 2000, food safety was a top of mind issue for companies due to several high- profile recalls, quarantines and negative publicity about the food industry. There was also extensive audit fatigue through the industry, as retailers performed inspections or audits themselves or asked a third party to do this on their behalf. These were often carried out against food safety schemes that lacked international certification and accreditation, resulting in incomparable auditing results. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

GFSI - Benchmarking 1 GFSI therefore chose to go down the route of benchmarking, developing a model that determines equivalency between existing food safety schemes, whilst leaving flexibility and choice in the marketplace https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

GFSI - Benchmarking 1 Benchmarking and the GFSI Guidance Document https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

GFSI - Benchmarking 1 This benchmarking model is based on the GFSI Guidance Document, a multi- stakeholder document that was drafted with input from food safety experts from all over the world, and defines the process by which food safety schemes may gain recognition by GFSI and gives guidance to these schemes https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

E-services - Benchmarking 1 Furthermore, if they are poorly designed, they risk distorting government policies as countries may chase the benchmark rather than looking at real local and national needs” https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Z-spread - Benchmark for CDS basis 1 The Z-spread is widely used as the 'cash' benchmark for calculating the CDS basis. The CDS basis is commonly the CDS fee minus the Z-spread for a cash bond of the same issuer and maturity. For instance, if a corporation's 10-year CDS is trading at 199.7 bp and the Z-spread for the corporation's 10-year cash bond is 286.8 bp, then its 10-year CDS basis is -87.1 bp. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Product configurator - Benchmarks 1 # Configuration Benchmarks Library (CLib): http://www.itu.dk/research/cla/externals/clib/ https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Product configurator - Benchmarks 1 # Benchmarks from automotive product configuration: http://www-sr.informatik.uni- tuebingen.de/~sinz/DC/ https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Joint University Programmes Admissions System - Benchmark examinations 1 Since JUPAS itself is a system, not an admission examination nor process, JUPAS will collect academic results from student for the references of admissions-related personals in member institutions. Theoretically, all recognised international academic examinations involving in the world are considered in admission into JUPAS, but the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination (HKALE), and/or the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE, launching in academic year 2011) is a must for every student. No applicant can participate in JUPAS without a valid HKALE (HKDSE) results obtained in the same or previous years in which the applicant apply for JUPAS. The HKALE (HKDSE) is considered the 'most important' factor of admission in all programmes in almost all situations other than the Early Admissions Scheme (Hong Kong)|Early Admissions Scheme. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Joint University Programmes Admissions System - Benchmark examinations 1 Apart from the above examinations, the two International English benchmark examinations, the TOEFL and the IELTS, are playing important roles in some situations, through most of the cases it is considered unessential. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Mantle (API) - Benchmarks 1 * Performance superior to Direct3D 11 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Mantle (API) - Benchmarks 1 * Up to 45% faster than Direct3D in Battlefield 4[http://wccftech.com/amd-mantle-api-performance-preview-radeon- r7-260x-radeon-r9-270x-radeon-r9-280x/ AMD Mantle API Performance Analysis With Radeon R7 260X, R9 270X, R9 280X][http://translate.google.com/translate?act=urldepth=1hl=plie=U TF8prev=_trurl=translate.google.plsl=autotl=enu=http://pclab.pl/art5 5953-3.html Tłumacz Google]http://www.pcgamesn.com/battlefield/amd-claim- performance-boosts-45-using-mantle-over-directx and up to 319% faster in the Star Swarm demo in single GPU configuration[http://wccftech.com/amd-mantle-powered-nitrous- engine-star-swarm-benchmark-released-steam/ AMD Mantle Powered Flagship Nitrous Engine Star Swarm Benchmark Released on Steam][http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/175881-amd- mantle-benchmarked-the-biggest-innovation-in-gaming-since- directx-9/2 Page 2 - AMD’s Mantle benchmarked: The biggest innovation in gaming since DirectX 9 | ExtremeTech][http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/33803-amd- releases-mantle-shares-performance-numbers AMD releases Mantle, shares performance numbers] in extremely CPU-limited situations. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Mitch Lasky - Benchmark 1 Lasky joined Benchmark in 2007 as a general partner. He focuses on identifying investment opportunities in mobile, games, digital privacy and identity, and online education. He has led the firm’s investments in and serves on the boards of Snapchat, CyanogenMod, Engine Yard, Gaia, Riot Games, Vivox, Grockit, Gaikai, RedRobot, Meteor Entertainment, thatgamecompany, and NaturalMotion. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Mitch Lasky - Benchmark 1 In June 2012, VentureBeat asked Lasky about the current state of the gaming industry. Lasky replied: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Mitch Lasky - Benchmark 1 We have seen disruptions come on a regular basis, like when we have a console transition. But I have never seen four major disruptions come all at the same time. We have disruptions in platforms, business models, content, and distribution. It’s the most exciting time I’ve ever seen. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Cadillac ATS - Competitive benchmarking 1 The engineers emphasized low weight when developing the ATS and their efforts resulted in a finished vehicle that weighs less than the BMW E46 benchmark https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Calgary corpus - Benchmarks 1 The UCLC benchmarkhttp://uclc.info/calgary_corpus_ compression_test.htm by Johan de Bock uses this method. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Calgary corpus - Benchmarks 1 For some data compressors it is possible to compress the corpus smaller by combining the inputs into an uncompressed archive (such as a tar (file format)|tar file) before compression because of mutual information between the text files. In other cases, the compression is worse because the compressor handles nonuniform statistics poorly. This method was used in a benchmark in the online book Data Compression Explained by Matt Mahoney.http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html# Section_214 https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Calgary corpus - Benchmarks 1 The table below shows the compressed sizes of the 14 file Calgary corpus using both methods for some popular compression programs. Options, when used, select best compression. For a more complete list, see the above benchmarks. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Bipolar disorder in children - Clinically Significant Change Benchmarks with Common Instruments and Mood Rating Scales 1 Listed below are clinically significant change benchmarks of common screening instruments used for pediatric bipolar disorder. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Macromolecular docking - Benchmarks 1 The protein–protein docking benchmark contains examples of enzyme-inhibitor, antigen-antibody and homomultimeric complexes. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Macromolecular docking - Benchmarks 1 This benchmark was used to assess the extent to which scoring functions could also predict affinities of macromolecular complexes. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Macromolecular docking - Benchmarks 1 The set may be used to benchmark biophysical models aiming to relate affinity to structure in protein–protein interactions, taking into account the reactants and the conformation changes that accompany the association reaction, instead of just the final product. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

Nouveau (software) - Benchmarks 1 In comparison benchmarks, nouveau has not been able to keep with Nvidia's proprietary graphics device drivers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-benchmark-toolkit.html

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