HBench-OS is a suite of portable benchmarks designed to measure the performance of primitive functionality provided by an operating system/hardware platform. HBench-OS was designed primarily as a research tool for the systems research and OS development communities, and thus its major design goal is to provide a flexible system for reproducible, accurate, and statistically-sound performance analysis and evaluation. These characteristics make it ideal for both performance research as well as more traditional consumer-oriented performance measurement and analysis. HBench-OS's major features include:
Read the HBench-OS README file. Visit the page of collected HBench-OS results. If you would like to share your results, please mail them to hbench-results@eecs.harvard.edu.
Downloading HBench-OSHBench-OS is available either via http or ftp by clicking on the appropriate link below. It is distributed as a .tar.gz file; after extracting the file using gunzip and tar, please read the included README file for information on configuring and using the benchmarks.Download now:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/vino/perf/hbench/hbench-OS-1.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.eecs.harvard.edu/pub/hbench-OS/hbench-OS-1.0.tar.gz Also available: More Information on System Performance Measurement Using HBench-OSThe following papers and slides give more technical details on HBench-OS, and describe analysis methodologies that use HBench-OS as the foundation for a complete model of computer system performance:
Author Contact InformationHBench-OS was written by Aaron B. Brown, with the guidance and assistance of Margo Seltzer, margo@eecs.harvard.edu.Any questions/comments/bug reports/patches that you have should be sent to the author at margo@eecs.harvard.edu.
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