Why use a Benchmark Lab that is web-based?

You want to benchmark on a platform as close as possible to your final platform.
- Benchmark reports are available (public and for a fee).
- But the benchmark done by “someone else” didn’t have my memory, clock, OS kernel, I/Os configured my way.

Problems with my own lab set up for this
- Can I even get the boards? The OS?, The benchmark code?
- Will I spend all my engineering merely tooling-up?
- Will I ever get to the benchmarking effort and show results?

Can I go to a trusted site already tooled-up?
- Use it to narrow my chip/board candidates down to the 2-3 finalists to then bring into my own lab.

Benefits

Real Hardware, Real Benchmarks, Real Lab … on the web
- Web-based Linux lab bench combines TechOnline’s VirtuaLab and Timesys’ customizable Linux building environment
- Configure precisely the hardware and the Linux environment you need
- Run b-lab’s existing benchmarks or upload your own

Reduce risk, time & resource consumption when benchmarking
- Would you rather spend your time setting-up the bench or analyzing the results?
- Easily sweep through your h/w configurations and gather benchmark results
- Avoid the time & frustration of assembling Linux, boards, benchmarks in own lab

Semi Customers: use lab to rapidly narrow your processor contenders
- Narrow the field of contenders to just the few worth bringing into your lab
- Evaluate and select based on more relevant benchmark results

Semi FAE’s: use lab as a pre-sales tool
- Bring in only a laptop, web browser, and internet connection
- Show performance comparisons
- Give access to customers while the processors & boards are still scarce