AIM Multiuser Benchmark

OVERVIEW
The AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII tests and measures the performance of
Open System multiuser computers. Multiuser computer environments typically have
the following general characteristics in common: 

- A large number of tasks are run concurrently 
- Disk storage increases dramatically as the number of users increase. 
- Complex numerically intense applications are performed infrequently 
- An important amount of time is spent sorting and searching through large
  amounts of data. 
- After data is used it is placed back on disk because it is a shared resource. 
- A large amount of time is spent in common runtime libraries. 

Multiuser systems are commonly used to support the following types of user
environments: 

- Multiuser/shared system environment performing office automation, word
  processing, spreadsheet, email, database, payroll, and data processing. 
- Compute server environment that uses an extremely large quantity of data,
  performs large quantities of floating point calculations, and large amounts
  of Interprocess Communications (IPC) for graphics. 
- Large database environment with a lot of disk I/O, data in memory, and IPC
  via shared memory.
- File server environment with a heavy concentration of integer compute file
  system operations. 

LICENSE
This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the
accompanying COPYING file for more details.

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
This software was designed to run properly on any POSIX-compliant operating
system. An ANSI C compiler is required.

DOCUMENTATION
The original AIM documentation has been restored from a printed copy. The
original document was scanned, OCR'ed, edited for contents and converted
manually into HTML format. The base document is "doc/main.html."

INSTALLATION
Please refer to the INSTALL file.

TRADEMARKS
"AIM Benchmark" and "Hot Iron Awards" are trademarks of Caldera
International, Inc. (Caldera) in the USA and other countries. Caldera allows
use of "AIM" and "AIM Benchmarks" when presenting performance results, but
places restrictions on this to promote comparability of results and avoid
confusion. Results presented using the terms "AIM" and "AIM Benchmark" must be
obtained with an official version of the benchmark, as designated by Caldera,
using one of the standard distributed workload mixes. No right or license is
granted hereunder to use the Caldera trademarks for modified benchmark versions
or for other purposes without the prior written permission of Caldera. Should
you need to contact Caldera about that topic, please e-mail
aimbench@users.sourceforge.net.

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