Benchmarks conducted by Sun in 2002 on Solaris showed that FreeTTS ran two to three times faster than Flite at the time.

* US NGS Benchmarks overlaid on a Google Map

Benchmarks are designed to mimic a particular type of workload on a component or system.

As regards target setting, the Member States agreed in the Council on 5 May 2003 a series of " Reference Levels of European Average Performance in Education and Training ( Benchmarks )" against which their systems would be measured.

Benchmarks demonstrate this approach has worked very well on commercial ( integer ), multithreaded workloads such as Java application servers, Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) application servers, email ( such as Lotus Domino ) servers, and web servers.

* Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled.

Benchmarks can be used by customers when comparing various products from alternative suppliers to estimate which product will best suit their specific requirements in terms of functionality and performance.

and The Computer Language Benchmarks Game compares the performance of implementations of typical programming problems in several programming languages.

Benchmarks using slow, budget CPUs like the Celeron 300A would give favourable results for the GeForce 256, but benchmarks done with faster CPUs such as the Pentium II 300 would give better results with some older graphics cards like the 3dfx Voodoo 2.

Benchmarks are used to evaluate performance.

He is a co-author of the NAS Benchmarks, which are used to assess and analyze the performance of parallel scientific computers.

Benchmarks include " run rules ", which describe the conditions of measurement and documentation requirements.

Benchmarks in other parts of the world had to be calculated or estimated by the positions of the sun and stars.

Benchmarks: Net Throughput with / without RTS / CTS ( Pommer, p. 179 )

Eden Benchmarks: Beside the river there is a sculpture by Laura White, entitled ‘ Passage ’, one of the ten " Eden Benchmarks ", a series of sculptures that have been placed at intervals along the River Eden from its source in Mallerstang to the Solway Firth.

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At the Corporation's initiative, the American Association for the Advancement of Science issued two groundbreaking reports, Science for All Americans ( 1989 ) and Benchmarks for Science Literacy ( 1993 ), which recommended a common core of learning in science, mathematics, and technology for all citizens and helped set national standards of achievement in these domains.

Benchmarks are typically placed (" monumented ") by a government agency or private survey firm, and many governments maintain a register of these marks so that the records are available to all.

Benchmarks provide a method of comparing the performance of various subsystems across different chip / system architectures.

Benchmarks are particularly important in CPU design, giving processor architects the ability to measure and make tradeoffs in microarchitectural decisions.

Benchmarks are now regularly used by compiler companies to improve not only their own benchmark scores, but real application performance.

* Benchmarks are having trouble adapting to widely distributed servers, particularly those with extra sensitivity to network topologies.

A subsequent 2010 study carried out under the initiative of the Diocese reported that, with the exception of aluminum content in one sample, samples of river water were all within " US Benchmarks "; and that all drinking water sampled had metals content below limits set in the US EPA ’ s National Drinking Water Regulations.

Benchmarks tend to emphasize mean scores ( IT perspective ), rather than maximum worst-case response times ( real-time computing perspective ), or low standard deviations ( user perspective ).

* 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

A liberal foreign investment law was approved in June 1994, and a Law on Privatization was adopted in 1997, as well as a program on state property privatization.

Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

; Attacks on UN Staff workers: Section 1 ( 2 )( a ) of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 ( c. 13 ) makes provision for assault causing injury, and section 1 ( 2 )( b ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on UN staff.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

The numbers on the white jerseys were black, but were changed to red in 1997.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

Intel introduced AGP support with the i440LX Slot 1 chipset on August 26, 1997, and a flood of products followed from all the major system board vendors.

FIC demonstrated the first Socket 7 AGP system board in November 1997 as the FIC PA-2012 based on the VIA Apollo VP3 chipset, followed very quickly by the EPoX P55-VP3 also based on the VIA VP3 chipset which was first to market.

In 1997, DJ Gruff dissed Articolo 31 in a track titled 1 vs 2 appearing on the first album of the beatmaker Fritz da Cat, but Articolo 31's lawyers obtained a retraction of the record, and its reissue without the song.

ARIN opened its doors for business on December 22, 1997 after incorporating on April 18, 1997.

Don DeLillo's Underworld ( 1997 ) is also set in the Bronx and offers a perspective on the decline of the area from the 1950s onwards.

President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.

In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

* The MTV Thanksgiving Special " Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving " aired on November 27, 1997, the day before the series finale Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead written by Andy Rheingold and Scott Sonneborn.

In 1997, Dan Tobin of The Boston Phoenix commented on the series ' humor, stating that it transformed " stupidity into a crusade, forcing us to acknowledge how little it really takes to make us laugh.

In 1997, a spin-off show based on their classmate Daria Morgendorffer, Daria, was created.