Characterizing computer performance with a single number

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1988, Pages 1202-1206

  Smith, J E ^a  

^a Astronautics Technology Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic mean; bencbmarking; geometric mean; harmonic mean

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING--DATA REDUCTION AND ANALYSIS;

CHARACTERIZING COMPUTER PERFORMANCE; REDUCTION TO SINGLE NUMBER; SINGLE PERFORMANCE NUMBER;

COMPUTERS, DIGITAL;

EID: 0024091632     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/63039.63043     Document Type: Article

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