SYSmark 2001 will extend BAPCo s leadership in industry standard benchmarks by providing an application-based benchmark that accurately reflects usage patterns for business users in the areas of Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity. Information technologists and others to accurately forecast present and future desktop computing needs. A robust set of 14 application benchmarks covering a wide range of Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity application categories. The applications emulate usage patterns of today s desktop business user that includes concurrent execution of applications. New applications have been added covering the areas of e-mail, file compression, virus protection, web authoring and web animation.
Users care most about the response time of the application to input.
SYSmark 2001 uses scenarios where background applications that detect viruses, compress files, encode video and convert speech to text run concurrently with other business applications. The benchmark runs at realistic execution speed, with visible pauses between application interactions, in order to accurately emulate a desktop user s interaction with the operating system and applications. Supports Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 and Windows Millennium Edition. Extensive validation across multiple hardware and software configurations to ensure consistent and reliable performance measurement results. To define the benchmark workload, BAPCo identified application areas and benchmarking methodologies that address evaluation and characterization requirements of the industry.