Version 1.1 of the W.P.I. Benchmark Suite is now available. In order to distribute the Suite easily, it has been placed here for anonymous ftp as a compressed file. Follow the steps below to obtain the archive and correctly extract its files. The benchmarks have been compressed in two different forms, as a compressed tar file and as a lharc file. Both compressed files contain the same programs. For most UNIX systems download the tar file (.tar.Z) and follow the instructions below. - Set transfer type to BINARY in FTP, "FTP> binary" - Get archived benchmark suite, "FTP> get BenchmarkSuite1.0.tar.Z" - Exit FTP, "FTP> bye" - "uncompress BenchmarkSuite1.0.tar.Z", will uncompress the file producing a plain tar file "BenchmarkSuite1.0.tar". You can check the contents of this tar file by using "tar -vft BenchmarkSuite1.0.tar". - To restore the archived files from the tar file, use "tar -xvf BenchmarkSuite1.0.tar". This will extract all benchmark files to a directory called "bench". - After unpacking, these benchmarks will be located in following directories: current directory | | bench | | ---+-----------+--------+---------+---------+--------+--- | | | | | | sdbase sdump sftp sxipc jigsaw scomp The README.FIRST file in the directory called bench gives instructions how to proceed. In addition to the benchmarks, there are two technical reports available describing the benchmarks and giving some sample results of running them. The two technical reports are in the files benchmarks_tr1.ps and benchmarks_tr2.ps and are in PostScript format. These must be downloaded separately. Thank You Mach Research Group Computer Science Department Internet: mach@cs.wpi.edu Worcester Polytechnic Institute Telephone: (508) 831-5357 Worcester, MA 01609 USA FAX: (508) 831-5776