New Version of SPECweb2009 Benchmark Adds ASPX Scripts for Web Server Applications.WARRENTON, Va. -- The Standard Performance Evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return Corp. (SPEC) has updated SPECweb2009, its worldwide standard for web server performance evaluation, to include ASP.NET (ASPX ASPX Active Server Page Framework (Microsoft) ASPX Active Server Plus Pages ) scripts for high-performance applications. SPEC members active in developing SPECweb2009 V1.10 include AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , Fujitsu, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . Broadening the reach SPECweb2009 V1.10 gives users the option of measuring performance based on applications employing ASPX, JSP (JavaServer Page) An extension to the Java servlet technology from Sun that allows HTML to be combined with Java on the same page. The Java provides the processing, and the HTML provides the layout on the Web page. or PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. scripts. The banking, ecommerce and support workloads in SPECweb2009 V1.10 measure peak performance as the maximum number of simultaneous user sessions that a web server is able to support while meeting specific throughput and error-rate requirements. Results from different SPECweb2009 V1.10 scripts cannot be compared to one another, and are listed separately on the SPEC web site. "This release is another step in reaching out to as many in the web server community as possible while maintaining SPEC's standards for objective and representative performance measurement," says Rema Hariharan, chair of the SPECweb project committee. SPECweb2009, released in early June, replaced SPECweb2005 and introduced the ability to measure power consumption while running the banking, ecommerce and support workloads. Available now SPECweb2009 V1.10 is available now on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). for $1,600 for new licensees, $800 for SPECweb2005 upgrades, and $400 for eligible non-profit organizations. Current SPECweb2009 licensees will receive a free automatic upgrade. To order, contact the SPEC office: phone: 540-349-7878; fax: 540-349-5992; e-mail: info@spec.org; web: www.spec.org. The SPECweb2009 V1.10 package comprises code for the primary client and clients that run the benchmark, code to generate data sets on the web server, backend simulator code, and the power temperature daemon that collects data from the power analyzer and temperature sensor. More information on configuration, installation and other issues can be found at http://www.spec.org/web2009. About SPEC SPEC is a non-profit organization that establishes, maintains and endorses standardized benchmarks to evaluate performance for the newest generation of computing systems. Its membership comprises more than 80 leading computer hardware and software vendors, educational institutions, research organizations, and government agencies worldwide. Product and service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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