Measuring Operating Efficiency

Measuring Operating Systems Performance

This instantly raises a question: what do we mean by performance? Most of us have an informal sense of what we mean. Perhaps we mean we don’t want to wait for our commands to complete. Perhaps we mean we want to run complex calculations on very large data sets fast enough for the results to be useful. Perhaps we mean we want to get the most possible work through a given piece of hardware that w...

Measuring Operating System Robustness

Robustness is becoming more important as critical software increasingly affects our daily lives. Success in building robust software requires understanding and improving the robustness of the operating system API, but to date there has been no accurate, reproducible way to measure robustness. This paper presents the first full-scale, quantitative measurements of operating system robustness. Eac...

Measuring the real-time operating system performance

Tests for measuring the real-time operating system performance belong to the software technology. They give quantitative measures for the most important characteristics and allow the implementer to compare the efficiency of various operating systems. This paper presents a set of simple tests for measuring the real-time operating system characteristics. The tests require no specialized hardware,...

Measuring Memory’s Resistance to Operating System Crashes

Increasing operating room efficiency through parallel processing.

OBJECTIVE Because of rising costs and shrinking reimbursements, hospitals must continually find ways to improve efficiency and productivity. This study attempts to increase caseloads in ambulatory surgery operating rooms while maintaining patient satisfaction and safety. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA In most hospitals, patients move through their operative day in a linear fashion, starting at regis...