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Archive of posts tagged: Benchmarks
Embench™: Recruiting for the Long Overdue and Deserved Demise of Dhrystone as a Benchmark for Embedded Computing

Embench™: Recruiting for the Long Overdue and Deserved Demise of Dhrystone as a Benchmark for Embedded Computing

I. Why a New Embedded Benchmark The world will soon be deluged by tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but we still don’t have a high quality, widely reported benchmark to fairly evaluate the embedded computers that power...

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Streaming Video for The Computer Architect

Streaming Video for The Computer Architect

Today streaming video accounts for over 70% of evening web traffic in the US. YouTube upload rates outpace not only CPU performance, but Moore’s Law itself, and reached 400 hours of video per minute in July 2015.  In addition to sheer hours per minute, the videos...

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