Top computer systems information web site moves to Silicon Valley.SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 1996--IDEAS International Pty. Ltd. popular web site has moved from its previous Australian home to the USA providing faster worldwide response, more information services See Information Systems. and additional concurrent user capability. IDEAS International's new web site features daily high tech news, the best performers in the top public domain benchmarks, gateways to other benchmark results and organisations, and has links to systems vendors and software corporations. The site, www.ideasinternational.com, has expanded its public coverage of Benchmark results. Now featured are the top 20 system results in the well respected benchmark suites from the Transaction Processing Council (TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of ), Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo), the Systems 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), the Graphics Performance Characterization Committee (GPC (1) A PC that uses the Linux-based gOS operating system. See gOS. (2) (GPC Group) Originally the Graphics Performance Characterization committee of the NCGA, the GPC Group is now part of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) and oversees the following ), and AIM Technology (AIM). There is also a handy reference list of iCOMP ratings for Intel's processor family. This means all of the top results for systems tested in TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. , TPC-D A benchmark that measures decision support performance. See TPC. , SYSmark95 for Windows, SYSmark for Windows NT, SYSmark for Servers, SPECint95, SPECft95, PLBwire93, AIMs and User Loads can be found in the one convenient location. As well as providing on site results for the above benchmarks IDEAS International provides a gateway to the testing organisations and pointers to other sources of public domain benchmarking information, such as Linpack, Dhrystones, Heapsort and so on. Typically visitors have been viewing over 2,500 pages from the benchmarking area each week, many taking the opportunity to look at examples of IDEAS products such as Competitive Profiles, a highly current intelligent database of computer systems product specifications, performance and pricing information. Competitive Profiles is available in many formats; as a Windows application, an html implementation (web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. ) and more recently, Lotus Notes. The Windows application is unequalled and is in use by almost all of the computer vendors throughout the world. At last count Competitive Profiles for Windows was the information tool of choice for over 4,000 computer professionals in over 30 countries. IDEAS International Pty. Ltd. headquartered in Gordon, NSW NSW New South Wales Noun 1. NSW - the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare Naval Special Warfare , Australia is a 13-year-old global market research and consulting company serving the high-technology community. The company provides worldwide analysis and research on the computer systems and benchmarking aspects of the information technology industry. IDEAS International's European office is based in Abingdon, Oxon, U.K. CONTACT: IDEAS International Pty. Ltd. John Tulloch, 011-61-2-498-7399 (Australia) email: johnt@ideas.com.au |
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