CPSC 330 - Spring 2012 Project 1 - Benchmark Analysis Paper due on Friday, Feb. 10 Grading Weights 45% description of the benchmarks 45% quality of analysis and comparison 5% bibliographic references 5% section headers You should prepare a 4-to-6-page analysis and comparison report on the five benchmarks identified in this article: Matt Smith, "The 5 Best Free Benchmark Programs for Windows," May 30, 2010. Available online as http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-benchmark-programs/. You may work individually or in teams of two. The report must be written totally by yourself or by your team, but you may discuss the project requirements and the particular benchmark programs with anyone in class. Pick one desktop or laptop and run all five benchmarks. Compare the information reported to you about the platform from the different benchmark results. If you have difficulty in running a particular benchmark, you can explain what went wrong. Your paper should have multiple sections with section titles/headers. E.g., Introduction and description of platform chosen (describe the HW and SW configuration, similar to what you find in a SPEC report; you might use something like CPU-Z to gets platform HW details not reported by the benchmarks - see http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html) SuperPi (describe what is tested, give the results, and discuss any critiques you have of the benchmark and/or any critiques that you find from others who have written about the benchmark) PCMark 05 Novabench SiSoft Sandra FRAPS Comparison of Results (identify and attempt to explain any anomalies in the results) Bibliography For the bibliography, please note that something generic like "http://www.intel.com" or "nvidia.com" is not a full citation for a web-based reference. Please provide full citations, as exemplified by the citation of the Smith paper above. Also, if you cut and paste a table or a figure from the web or other source, be sure to cite the source both in the caption and in the references section. Please see the examples of other source citations in a CS paper in /home/mark/example_citations.pdf.