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Component benchmarks are valuable tools for isolating and analyzing the performance characteristics of specific subsystems within a server environment. This chapter will provide historical context for component benchmarks, brief descriptions of the most commonly used benchmarks, and a discussion on their uses in the field.
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Software that utilizes standard applications, or their core routines that focus on a particular access pattern, in order to measure the performance and/or efficiency of one of the primary server and storage components (CPU transactions, memory, and storage/network IO).
Historical Background
From earliest days of digital computer systems, the goal of quantifying, improving, and optimizing computational performance has been a subject great interest. The earliest measures of performance were comparisons of low-level instruction execution times. A mix of several of these execution times would be combined to produce an...
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Lange, KD., Schmidt, D.L. (2019). Component Benchmark. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A.Y. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77525-8_110
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