wanted: system evaluation/benchmarking tools

[Ed Arnold]

(My apologies if this has arrived on your system more than once;
I've been having a disagreement with an inews bug today.)

We are preparing to issue an RFP for a mid-range ($250K) unix system.
I would be interested in hearing from others who have evaluated systems
in this class, esp. what tools you bought/built/filched/etc. to do your
evaluation.  [I suppose this has been discussed before, so if you happen
to know in which group(s), I would appreciate a pointer with which to
flog the archives.]

We're interested both in cpu-i/o-network benchmarking, and in a test
suite which can give some measure of a system's functional conformance to
"pure" 4.3 and/or pure S/V.  (Since we don't have a S/V source license,
we don't have access to the SVVS.)

Please reply directly to me via mail.  Results will be returned by mail
to correspondents.  If I receive a significant number of responses, I will
summarize to these groups.

Thanks for your assistance -
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Ed Arnold * NCAR (Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research) * Mesa Lab
PO Box 3000 * Boulder, CO  80307-3000 * 303-497-1253
era at ncar.ucar.edu (128.117.64.4) * {ames,gatech,noao,...}!ncar!era
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Ed Arnold * NCAR (Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research) * Mesa Lab
PO Box 3000 * Boulder, CO  80307-3000 * 303-497-1253
era at ncar.ucar.edu (128.117.64.4) * {ames,gatech,noao,...}!ncar!era