A Data Base For Computer Performance Evaluation

We describe in this paper an RCA Labs team project begun in 1968, with the general goal to predict the performance of new system architectures being considered within RCA for future computers. The cache-system or slave memory idea was the principal subject. However, many other problems have been studied, and the data base that was collected has been found useful in analysis as well as prediction of performance, and in obtaining fundamental data for modelling purposes.