| A Proposal for Benchmarking the Hardware and OS Plarforms for ModSAF (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| et) and the underlying operating systems(e.g., Solaris 2.4, IRIX 5.2) as to their suitability to support ModSAF. A number of benchmarks measuring the speed of a host machine exist [5, 6, 2] but only recently a benchmark has been proposed to measure communication [3, ?]. This last one would complete an appropriate benchmarking suite testing ModSAF efficiency, host speed, and communication effectiveness. 2 B(its) T(o the) User: a Communication Benchmark The BTU benchmark[3] does not test the maximum performance of a workstation in a homogeneous network under ideal circumstances. Rather, it takes a vendor supplied workstation running UNIX operating system, installs the benchmark program and connects the workstation to a blackbox testbed which emulates a LAN connected to a WAN. The benchmark run will submit the workstation to a carefully designed combination of tests. The result is an indicator of what the user, at the application level, can expect in term | |||||||||||||||
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