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2 unusual facts about benchmark


Benchmark

Benchmark price, a point of reference for setting the price of a commodity

Large-group awareness training

Groups and trainings such as Lifespring, Erhard Seminars Training, IMPACT Trainings, The Forum, Newfield Consulting, Seres Naturales, Landmark Education and Benchmark claimed to have worked to improve people's overall level of satisfaction and interpersonal relations through group interaction.


Adar oilfield

Because this blend of crude oil is heavy and highly acidic, it fetches lower prices than benchmark crudes such as Brent or Minas.

Andrew Boris

Within a week of his hire, 96 Rock was dismantled by Benchmark Communications to make room for a new country station, WWFG Froggy 99.9.

Angelbird

Using an Angelbird Crest SSD, an Intel Core i7 3770K CPU, and cooling components from Noctua, o.v.e.r.clockers members reached 63.665 points and set a new world record at the PCMark05 benchmark.

Benchmark Recordings

In 2011 Benchmark released a "Best of" collection documenting live and studio recordings from their fist decade, titled, The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special.

Eco-friendly dentistry

Careful planning and construction of a green building, including membership with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and building facilities in accordance with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines, a national benchmark for constructing green buildings.

Fhourstones

In computer science, Fhourstones is an integer benchmark that efficiently solves positions in the game of Connect-4.

Gecode

Gecode is a regular participant in the MiniZinc Challenge, a benchmark of constraint solvers organized by the NICTA research centre.

Howard Harry Rosenbrock

The Rosenbrock function is a benchmark test for numerical optimization algorithms.

IBM 700/7000 series

All of the 700 and 7000 series machines predate standard performance measurement tools such as the Whetstone (1972), Dhrystone (1984), LINPACK (1979), or Livermore loops (1986) benchmarks.

Khornerstone

In computer performance testing, Khornerstone is a multipurpose benchmark from Workstation Labs used in various periodicals such as UNIX Review.

Killer NIC

However, using a F.E.A.R. benchmark IGN found that the Killer NIC increased framerate from 15.41 to 23.5 frame/s.

Lavinia Miloșovici

Miloșovici was also the last gymnast along with Lu Li to ever receive the perfect mark of 10.0 in an Olympic competition and the last to receive the benchmark score of 9.95 at the World Championships.

Limketkai Hotel and Resort

Limketkai Hotel signed, currently the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified in the Philippines that was developed by U.S. Green Building Council designed for environmental structure wherein it meets functional benchmark for a green building.

LINPACK

Parallel LINPACK benchmark implementation called HPL (High Performance Linpack) is used to benchmark and rank supercomputers for the TOP500 list.

Lipper average

Lipper Average also known as Lipper Index are a series of indices that establish benchmarks to measure the performance of a portfolio, or of various mutual funds and exchange-traded funds produced by Lipper Analytical Services.

MacUser

Recent features have covered new developments by Quark and Adobe in creating iPad magazines, benchmark tests of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops, and group tests of personal color laser printers.

Merrill Lynch High Yield Master II

The Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Index (H0A0) is a commonly used benchmark index for high yield corporate bonds.

Michael Milenski

Los Angeles Philharmonic executive director Ernest Fleischmann noted that Milenski established a benchmark for progressive programming and daring production that invigorated the entire Southern California performing arts community.

Motz's problem

In mathematics, Motz's problem is a problem which is widely employed as a benchmark for singularity problems to compare the effectiveness of numerical methods.

Multi-channel memory architecture

Another benchmark performed by TweakTown, using SiSoftware Sandra, measured around 70% increase in performance of a quadruple-channel configuration, when compared to a dual-channel configuration.

Oracle Linux

In March 2012, Oracle submitted a TPC-C benchmark result using a Sun Fire server running Oracle Linux and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.

Orvis

His 1874 fly reel was described by reel historian Jim Brown as the "benchmark of American reel design," the first fully modern fly reel.

Outotec

A listing on the Helsinki Stock Exchange followed shortly afterwards, and the company was promoted to the benchmark OMX Helsinki 25 as a result of the index's February 2007 reclassification.

Peter Hajba

He is credited for "additional character animation" in 3DMark 2003 graphical and game benchmark.

Petroleum pricing in Nova Scotia

The price of gasoline and diesel fuel are based on the price on the New York Mercantile Exchange as a benchmark in Canadian funds.

Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya

His final professional benchmark was the Vice Chancellorship of Gujarat University during 1978 – 80.

Scedu Tender Readiness Toolkit

The Scedu Tender Readiness Toolkit differed from the likes of the DTI's 2003 report Public procurement: a toolkit for social enterprises, in that it offered a practical solution for social enterprises and voluntary and community organisations to assess their options, benchmark their current status, set development targets, and find contract opportunities.

VMJ Higher Secondary School

A pioneer in Madurai for adopting the ICSE syllabus for its high school, the school has continued to set the benchmark for excellence in final examinations scores.

Xubuntu

Michael Larabel of Phoronix carried out detailed benchmark testing of betas for Ubuntu 7.04, Kubuntu 7.04 and Xubuntu 7.04 in February 2007 on two different computers, one with dual Intel Clovertown processors and the other with an AMD Sempron.


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