The performance of 24 density functionals, including 14 meta-generalized gradient approximation (mGGA) functionals, is assessed for the calculation of vertical excitation energies against an experimental benchmark set comprising 14 small- to medium-sized compounds with 101 total excited states. The experimental benchmark set consists of singlet, triplet, valence, and Rydberg excited states. The...

In the 2000-2004 Enterprise Bargaining round between the Australian Nursing Union and the South Australian state government, it was agreed that public hospitals would be staffed according to Excelcare timings or benchmarks. Excelcare is a computerised workload produce that measures the number of hours and minutes needed to perform a range of nursing tasks for patients on a given ward. This brou...

The main goals of the ALOJA research project from BSCMSR, are to explore and automate the characterization of cost-effectiveness of Big Data deployments. The development of the project over its first year, has resulted in a open source benchmarking platform, an online public repository of results with over 42,000 Hadoop job runs, and webbased analytic tools to gather insights about system’s cos...

Regression benchmarking as a part of regression testing is an application of benchmarking that aims at an automatic detection of performance regressions during application development. While the automation is a crucial requirement for regression benchmarking, it is hard to meet this requirement with contemporary benchmarks that are usually not fully automated. The paper gives an analysis of the...

Multiprocessor architectures, operating systems and real-time technologies are all interesting and highly advanced topics. Real-time demands inject an additional correctness criterion into computer systems. It is not just the result that is important, timing issues also have to be considered. A multiprocessor system is able to provide more performance than today’s fastest single processor solut...

Cloud computing provides on-demand access to affordable hardware (e.g., multi-core CPUs, GPUs, disks, and networking equipment) and software (e.g., databases, application servers and data processing frameworks) platforms with features such as elasticity, pay-per-use, low upfront investment and low time to market. This has led to the proliferation of business critical applications that leverage ...

Practically, there are endless variations of the implementation of Real-Time Distributed Systems @?TDSs).These variations are the consequences of the direrent hardware, system sojiivare architectures, and application requirements. These variations make the testing of RTDSs more implementation dependent. To the contrary benchmarking can be considered to be domain specific. Jn general any RTDS ca...

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations recommends national and regional benchmarking in the quality improvement process. Benchmarking is comparing your organization's patient care process outcomes to the best. This communication describes a national benchmarking process for peer comparison of indicators in perfusion patient services process improvement. A databasing ...