ArcInfo has been supported across a number of different UNIX platforms for several decades. ArcInfo has been available on the Windows NT platform for a few years and has become quite popular for a variety of reasons.

Unfortunately, there is no good way of judging what NT PC might run ArcInfo equivalently to a particular UNIX computer. This is important for NT PC purchasers since there is such a wide choice of hardware. We have put together a benchmark to help judge the relative performance of particular hardware configurations.

This benchmark is a series of timed ArcInfo commands conducted against common datasets. For details on what will happen in the benchmark, please see the benchmark Methodology page.

To download the benchmark files, please see the benchmark Download page.

Note: Please run the benchmark at times when there is little or no network activity. Other users accessing licenses and disk drive on your computer will slow down this benchmark!

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to all the folks who ran the benchmark on their own systems:

Sonia Talwar, Dwight McCullough, Steve Williams, Mike Sigouin, and the many who ran the test after the publication date of this paper.

Authors

Robert Cocking (Vancouver, BC)

Kazuharu Shimamura (Vancouver, BC)