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APC Benchmarking Group
Seeks Partnerships with User Groups
The Application Performance Characterization (APC) project group is seeking
software user groups to help in its quest to develop and maintain
standardized benchmarks based on graphics-intensive applications.
The non-profit APC group is part of SPEC’s Graphics Performance
Characterization (GPC) Group. Current members include Compaq,
Digital Equipment Corp., Dynamic Pictures Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Intergraph, Real 3D,
Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems.
It is the APC’s belief that end users of graphics applications will
benefit greatly from a broad-ranging set of benchmarks focusing on the
graphics portions of applications in CAD/CAM/CAE, visualization, simulation,
industrial design, animation, AEC and games. The APC group wants to work
directly with user groups to develop benchmarks that reflect the real-world
work of graphics users. Here are some of the benefits user groups will
receive from working with the APC Group:
- Participation in the development process to ensure that benchmarks reflect real-world user experience.
- Access to beta versions of benchmarks to test how your application performs on different hardware systems.
- Recognition by APC members of your group’s role in developing the benchmark.
- Positive marketing exposure in the trade press and on the GPC Group’s popular Web site for your group’s contribution.
- Positive marketing exposure for your group’s work through the use of the benchmark as a worldwide industry standard.
Contact the APC project group to discuss how we can work together to
make your group’s application become the basis for a worldwide benchmarking
standard.
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