Selecting a job mix for running a benchmark by using an integer programming model

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Abstract

A brief review of computer selection methods indicates that benchmark testing is the most common technique for computer selection. A model for selecting a set of programs comprising a benchmark is then constructed step-by-step up to a “basic model”. The “basic” model is altered and expanded up to a “global” model. The paper summarizes advantages of the model and cites some experimental results.

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Niv Ahituv is lecturing at the Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University. Formerly he managed the D.P. department at the Bank of Israel. He holds B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics, M.B.A. and M.Sc. in Information Systems.

Israel Borovits is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University. He is the chairman of the Information Systems Program and the director of Tel-Aviv University Computation Center. He holds B.Sc. degrees, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

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