Benchmarks (Lies, Damned Lies, Benchmarks, Roger Shepherd, Peter Thompson, Inmos Techn. Note 27,Jan. 1988)

Peak performance (never achieved !)

Number of execution units * clock rate

e.g.

MFLOPS : Million Floating point Operations Per Second

MIPS : Million Integer instructions Per Seconds

CERN units : 1 CERN unit = 40 MIPS

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