Application Benchmarking

The mission of the Applications Benchmarking11Note that in the computer industry, as opposed to the larger semiconductor industry, “benchmarking” refers to using test programs that serve as proxies for user applications in order to estimate the performance of a computer system on a given application domain. (AB) International Focus Team (IFT) is to identify key application drivers, and to track and roadmap the performance of these applications for the next 15 years. Given a list of market drivers from the Systems and Architectures International Focus Team (SA IFT), AB generates a cross matrix map showing which application(s) are important or critical (gating) for each market.