To: jcholewa who wrote (60570 ) 10/26/2001 5:30:22 PM From: wanna_bmw Read Replies (1) | Respond to JC, all you need to do is follow the link I gave. Here is is again.bapco.com "Does the system run ALL of these benchmarks at the same time?" Today’s desktop office productivity user utilizes more than one application simultaneously to complete day-to-day activities. Many applications remain open on the desktop through out the day. In SYSmark 2001 the Office Productivity scenario has many components of Office 2000 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) open at the same time. The benchmark runs back and forth between the Office 2000 components. In the Internet Content Creation scenario, the benchmark alternates between Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and Premiere. "Is WME done in the background?" BAPCo has attempted to model this in the Office Productivity scenario by having file compression, virus scan and a speech to text translation occurring in the background while Office 2000 documents are being created in the foreground. In the Internet Content Creation scenario, video encoding runs concurrently with other web page creation activities. "How exactly are they testing Photoshop? Are they using the most commonly used filters and actions, or are they stressing performance with uncommon filters and actions?" The user opens a high definition picture and runs a few sample filters, experiments with the size and orientation, changes pixel/inch ratio, fades the image, adds a border, saves the result image under jpeg format and prints the resultant image. "It is BapCo's responsibility to clarify in deep detail what they're doing. This descriptions you've given me barely scratch the surface of that responsibility. They're getting paid a lot of money for these testing suites, so they had better be obligated to publicly prove their products' worth!" ARE providing such details. Why are you rambling on and complaining before you even check out the link I provided???"And, well, it's obvious that the P4 did get a rather sizable boost from the prior version of SysMark to the current version of SysMark. Why is this? If it's because of "future behavior", BapCo has yet to really justify it in detail." The fundamental performance unit in SYSmark 2001 is the “Response Time”. Response time, in the context of SYSmark 2001, is defined as the latency experienced between the submission of a request by the user and the completion of the processing of that request by the application. For example, the response time for a Replace All command in Word 2000 is the time between hitting the Replace All button in the Edit/Replace window and the time that Word 2000 brings up an operation completion window. Each scenario consists of a number of operations performed by a number of applications. Only the response times for each of these operations will be recorded. The time to reposition the mouse or cursor to achieve the operation is not timed, as the user will do this during normal use of the application. What’s new in SYSmark 2001?
