The user takes a video clip and encodes it in the background. Current Usage models SYSmark 2001 reflects the current business usage models of office productivity users and content creators. The user generally has a number of applications running in the background while the focus is on the primary work being done. BAPCo has attempted to model this in the Office Productivity scenario by having file compression, virus scan and a speech to text translation occurring in the background while Office 2000 documents are being created in the foreground. In the Internet Content Creation scenario, video encoding runs concurrently with other web page creation activities.
Many applications remain open on the desktop through out the day.
The benchmark runs back and forth between the Office 2000 components. In the Internet Content Creation scenario, the benchmark alternates between Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and Premiere. The fundamental performance unit in SYSmark 2001 is the Response Time . Response time, in the context of SYSmark 2001, is defined as the latency experienced between the submission of a request by the user and the completion of the processing of that request by the application. Each scenario consists of a number of operations performed by a number of applications.