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Canadian organization enables peer-to-peer carbon comparisons

Canadian industry group National Quality Institute and developer/advocacy group Zerofootprint creates carbon benchmarking tool for members. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Benchmarking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-03

3DMark06 Basic Edition build 1.1.0 (Windows)

3dMark06 is the latest in the 3D benchmarking series. The program is one of the most prefered methods of testing hardware and software performance for all PC configurations.

Tags: Benchmarking, Microsoft Windows, Futuremark, 3DMark06, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Benchmarking Security Vendor Infrastructure and Stability

The perception exists that all security vendors and their products are alike, undifferentiated. As part of this study, TBR evaluated six leading security vendors across a number of categories to determine which utilized its security assets, product portfolio, and voice in the industry to best meet customer security needs. The...

Tags: Technology Business Research, Benchmarking, Security Company, Security

White papers 2009-07-14

Benchmarking Firefox 3.5

Benchmarking Firefox 3.5Benchmarking Firefox 3.5Any reason you chose to benchmark 3.0.5 instead of 3.0.11? Not a gripe, just curious. If its something like no speed improvements since the 3.0.5 patches then that's understandable.Something unexpected hereI just ran a Sunspider of FF3.5 running in Win7 build 7100 on this...

Tags: Web browsers, Apple Safari, Chrome, Benchmarking Firefox 3.5, Mozilla Firefox, benchmarking, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Benchmarking Firefox 3.5

I've just loaded The release version of Firefox 3.5 onto my browser test bed in order to do some benchmarking. How does Mozilla's latest browser compare to the rest?. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Benchmarking, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-06-30

A Guide to Improving Benchmarking for Battery Life of Notebook PCs: Measuring Battery Life for Today's Notebook PCs

Today, notebook PC customers are frequently presented with a single battery life benchmarking score that is gathered using light workloads and a relatively idle CPU. This single score does not take into account how a notebook PC battery may perform when the battery is used in a more "Active" state,...

Tags: PC, Benchmarking, Notebook Computer, Battery, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

White papers 2009-04-25

Texas senate: Remember XP!

Texas senate: Remember XP!More expensive to keep XPThe lifetime of XP is ending, and it is getting more difficult to obtain it. As a result, there is no cost associated with "upgrading" to Vista. Rather, it's keeping XP around that is more expensive. To obtain XP on...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, benchmarking

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

How do I... Benchmark USB drives with CheckFlash?

CheckFlash is an easy to use USB flash drive benchmarking tool that can handle a few important tasks for those administrators who have a need to know their devices are up to the task. In this introduction to CheckFlash, Jack Wallen shows you how to run a both the Read...

Tags: Benchmarking, USB Flash Drive, Jack Wallen, CheckFlash, Flash Memory

Download resources 2009-03-31

Top Ten Benchmarking Misconceptions

The keys to accurate benchmarking? Experience, proper preparation and the right tools. In the new Quest white paper, "Top Ten Benchmarking Misconceptions," author Bert Scalzo discusses 10 benchmarking preparation and execution fallacies - and what you can do to avoid them. Read the white paper today.

Tags: Benchmarking, Quest Software Inc.

White papers 2009-03-30

The Top Five Database Benchmarking Questions

In this new white paper, author Bert Scalzo address the five most-asked database benchmarking questions. Get Bert's insight and experience on topics such as: Windows or Linux - which yield better benchmarking results? How many bits are best? Which database provides the best benchmark? ...

Tags: Database, Benchmarking

White papers 2009-03-30

Optimizing PC Performance With Simple Benchmarking Processes

Intel IT has developed a PC platform performance benchmarking process that enabled to measure, manage, and optimize client PC builds from the user perspective, resulting in improved platform performance and more realistic user expectations. Although each generate on of PCs is faster than its predecessor the application loads it place...

Tags: Performance, PC, Benchmarking, PC Performance, Intel IT

White papers 2008-11-01

NetStress 1.0.8282 (Windows)

NetStress is a benchmarking tool used for measuring network performance both wired and wireless. It is used to generate network traffic and measure the network's throughput peformance -- both for wired and wireless (802.11, WiFi) networks. It is most useful when applied to diagnosing network problems.

Tags: Network, Benchmarking, Microsoft Windows, NetStress, Networking

Software downloads 2008-10-17

yCPUBench 0.9 (Mobile)

yCPUBench is benchmarking utility. yCPUBench can measure an OS 5 handhelds native ARM CPU's performance using ARM-pnolets, as well being able to measuring 68k PACE emulated performance for comparison. Includes floating point math performance megaflops and memory bandwidth tests.

Tags: Performance, Mobile, Benchmarking, Memory Bandwidth, HotPaw, yCPUBench, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-07-18

Review disputes power-savings potential of solid state drives

I've been as guilty as the next person about talking up solid state drives (or SSDs, as they are unfortunately called by the techno-babblists) as a wonderful device for reducing power consumption AND weight in notebooks. And any other system for that matter. But, fact is, I don't have any...

Tags: Benchmarking, Solid State Disk, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Sharpen Your Code With Benchmarking in PHP

Any software product must successfully pass the optimization step before it can hit the market and become a reference product. Finding memory leaks and increasing a product's performance is a delicate job that takes many hours of work and many human resources. Benchmarking is an important step in the optimization...

Tags: Optimization, Benchmarking, PHP, Jupitermedia Corp., Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-05-28

SpeedTools Test Suite for Windows 1.0 (Windows)

Intech's popular Macintosh SpeedTools Test Suite is now available for Windows 2000, XP and Vista! This industry trusted hard disk benchmarking and testing suite was developed using virtually the same time-tested algorithms used by Intech's Mac version and is used by hardware editors around the world.And, like Intech's other software...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Benchmarking, Intech Software Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-04-15

Safari 3.1 is fast ... but so is Firefox 3.0 Beta 4

A little over a week ago I took a look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 and I benchmarked this latest release against the current browser lineup.  Yesterday Apple released Safari 3.1 so the browser landscape has now changed.  It's time to see how Apple's latest browser fits into the big...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Benchmarking, Beta, Web Browser, Safari 3.1, iBench 5.0, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-19

Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-up

Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-upWhat is the Computer Platform ?These numbers have little or no meaning unless we can figure out what the platform, computer is like. Are you using a Dual Core with 4 Gig of RAM ? Are you using a Single Core Pentium that has...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, benchmarking, SP1

Discussion threads 2008-03-04

Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-up

Given that I've made numerous posts relating to benchmarking Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on this blog over the past few weeks I thought that many readers would appreciate a single post that pulled together all the individual posts and which drew together the thoughts, findings and conclusions from the individual...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, 32-bit, 64-bit, Benchmarking, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Service Pack, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Remote Desktop Connection, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking

Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarkingoffice 2007not totally pertinent to the discussion, but office 2007, specifically excel, is slower than office 2003 on xp or vista.i have excel code that takes twice as long to execute in office 2007 than it does in office 2003. the os...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Office 2007 benchmarking, Vista RTM, benchmarking

Discussion threads 2008-02-26