Announcement: Average Vax Project

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Dear Folks,


     We are looking for interested parties to participate in
the  "Average Vax Project".  The purpose of the "Average Vax
Project" is to bench mark a number of  Vaxen  to  produce  a
measure  of  performance to be known as the "Average Vax" or
"AV" (sort of like the "average candle" measure of light  in
physics).

     The benchmarking software used will be Aim Technologies
"QBENCH"  (part of their Suite 2 benchmarking software) dis-
tributed in binary form.   After "QBENCH" has  been  run  on
your  machine(s)  the  results  will  be  returned to us for
analysis,  and the development of an "Average  Vax"  measure
of computer performance.

     The benchmarks takes about ten minutes to run and needs
to  be run on a system with no other users logged in.  After
running the benchmarks you will receive an immediate  bench-
mark of your machine from "OBENCH".

     The results of the project will be  made  available  to
the  sites participating and will be presented in a paper at
Usenix.  The sites participating will be kept confidential.

     If you are interested in participating please send your
name,  address, phone number, UUCP address, number and types
of Vaxen, version of Unix (4.2BSD, Ultrix, or System V), and
affiliation  to  the  following  address (via UUCP).  If you
have any questions, just drop a note (via UUCP) and we  will
contact you to answer them.


Thank you,

Jordan J. Mattson
Crown College - UCSC
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

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