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In the world of high performance computing, everyone wants to know how well a system performs before deciding to buy it. Benchmarks provide a relatively objective way of determining how well a system will perform under given conditions. What customers need to know is: which benchmarks are relevant to their particular needs, and which ones don't matter? This article answers those questions and offers two useful tables - one listing the most common benchmark tests and another showing the correlation between those tests and various tasks/applications. Also discussed is the misapplication of benchmarks.

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Until it attains godlike profitability, reduces costs to zero, and hears the pathetic mewling of its last, defeated competitor, Dell Computer won't stop remaking its business. Its three-part strategy for ultimate victory? Web, Web, and Web.