Computer Family Architecture Selection Committee Final Report. Volume III. Evaluation of Computer Architecture via Test Programs.

Abstract

This volume presents the evaluation of the Computer Family Architecture (CFA) candidate machines via a set of test programs. The measures used to rank the computer architectures were S, the size of the test program, and M and R, two measures designed to estimate the principle components contributing to the nominal execution speed of the architecture. The S, M, and R measurements are discussed in detail in this report, but the following numbers are the most important, summary results of our evaluation process. These results are the composite performance of the candidate architectures for the set of 12 test programs specified by the CFA committee. Each test program was coded from two to four times on each architecture to minimize the effect of programmer variability. Analysis of Variance procedure was used to determine the overall relative performance of the three computer architectures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA049482

Entities

People

  • David A. Lamb
  • Paul S. Shaman
  • Samuel H. Fuller
  • William E. Burr

Organizations

  • United States Army Communications-Electronics Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Application Software
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Data Science
  • Experimental Design
  • Factorial Design
  • Information Science
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Lists (Data Structures)
  • Measurement
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Regression Analysis.