Commercial Processing Workload

The Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a simplified variant of the industry-wide TPC-C benchmarking standard originally developed by IBM to compare the performance of their various AS/400 (now IBM i) server offerings.¹

The related, but less commonly used Computational Intensive Workload (CIW) measures performance in a situation where there is a high ratio of computation to input/output communication. The reverse situation is simulated by the CPW.²

References

Frank G. Soltis (2001). Fortress Rochester: the inside story of the IBM iSeries. 29th Street Press. pp. 147–148. ISBN 1-58304-083-8.
End to End Performance Management on IBM i (PDF), IBM, November 2009

External links

TPC slaps Oracle on benchmark claims- The Register

[1] Frank G. Soltis (2001). Fortress Rochester: the inside story of the IBM iSeries. 29th Street Press. pp. 147–148. ISBN 1-58304-083-8.

[2] End to End Performance Management on IBM i (PDF), IBM, November 2009

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