When you set out to build an application-based benchmark like HDXPRT, you face many choices, but two are particularly important: what applications do you run, and what functions do you perform in each application?
With HDXPRT the answers were straightforward, as they should be.
The applications we chose reflected a blend of market leaders, those providing emerging but important features, and the input from our community members.
The functions we perform in each application are ones that are representative of common uses of those programs—and that reflect the input of the community.
What’s so important here is the last clause of each of those paragraphs: your input defines this benchmark.
As we finish off HDXPRT 2011 and then move to the 2012 version, we’ll begin the development cycle anew. When we do, if you want to make sure we choose the applications and functions that matter most to you, then participate, tell us what you want, let us hear your voice. We will respond to all input, so though we can’t guarantee to accept all direction—after all, goals and desires sometimes conflict—we can guarantee that you will hear back from us and that we will explain the rationale for our decisions.
Mark Van Name
