benchmark methodology

[David (PassMark)]

You can find the formula here.
http://www.passmark.com/forum/showth...-and-disk-mark

It is for the most part a Constant * Weighted Harmonic Mean. With the constants being determined from a average result of several reference machines.

Also our execution times are constant. The number of operations completed in a constant period are used to determine performance.

[joloughlin]

All,

Does passmark follow a similar method to SPEC when calculating the aggregate score?

So, take the execution time of a set of benchmarks, normalise against a reference machine and then take the geometric mean?

Regards
John