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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
George Allt, Oldham, GB;
John R Eaton, Salford, GB;
Assignee:
International Computers Limited, Putney, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395575 ; 371 162 ; 3642643 ; 36455101 ; 364578 ; 395500 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus as described for predicting the performance of a computer system. A benchmark program is run on an existing host computer, and is monitored to determine the actual sequence of instructions in the instruction set of the host. These are then converted into the corresponding sequence in the instruction set of the target. The performance of the target system in executing these instructions is then determined.