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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Just to let you all know that today I brought live a little benchmarking applet on my web pages at work. The applet is designed to benchmark the implementation of a NOW cluster implemented in Java applets. The messaging that takes places is based on the HTTP protocol.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>You can participate in the benchmark by pointing your browsers to <A HREF="http://www.affiliatedhealth.org" TARGET="_blank">http://www.affiliatedhealth.org</A>. Any web page on the site will benchmark the Java Virtual Machine on your computer.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>You can find more details about the project , which I call the GlobalNOW project, on my other website: <A HREF="http://www.nationalinformatics.com/GlobalNOW" TARGET="_blank">http://www.nationalinformatics.com/GlobalNOW</A></FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>So far it's worked well. Here's what is benchmarked:</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2>The number of integer calculations per second.</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>The average free memory during the time the applet is running.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>When you get there look at your Java console. You don't have to do anything else to participate. The web server automatically records your results, which I will make public here over the next month or so.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I'm also interested to know if the applet does not work on anyone's machine.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I'm also doing the follow-up research on papers that have addressed this already, and will put together a paper to present (somewhere). And of course I'll be implementing some more common benchmarks soon (as time permits), so stay tuned. . . .</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>If any of you have something you'd like to benchmark for Java applets in particular, let me know.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Richard Schilling</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Webmaster / Web Integration Programmer</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.affiliatedhealth.org" TARGET="_blank">http://www.affiliatedhealth.org</A></FONT>
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