The Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a simplified variant of the industry-wide
TPC-C benchmarking standard originally developed by
IBM
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to compare the performance of their various
AS/400
The IBM AS/400 (Application System/400) is a family of midrange computers from IBM announced in June 1988 and released in August 1988. It was the successor to the System/36 and System/38 platforms, and ran the OS/400 operating system. Lower-cost ...
(now
IBM i
IBM i (the ''i'' standing for ''integrated'') is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as the sole operating system of the IBM AS/400 line of systems. It was renamed to i5/OS in 2 ...
) server offerings.
The related, but less commonly used Computational Intensive Workload (CIW) measures performance in a situation where there is a high ratio of computation to input/output communication. The reverse situation is simulated by the CPW.
References
External links
TPC slaps Oracle on benchmark claims The Register
Benchmarks (computing)
IBM software
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