BAPCo consortium
BAPCo, the Business Application Performance Corporation, is an industry consortium based in San Mateo, California. Its members include Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NVIDIA, Lenovo, and Apple, and is a group dedicated to developing benchmarks for Windows personal computers.
BAPCo has developed standard benchmarks such as SYSmark 2004SE, MobileMark 2005 and WebMark 2004 as well as standardized protocols for measuring application performance, for example 3D Studio Max, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite.
The latest BAPCo benchmark, SYSmark 2007 Preview, was released in April 2007 and supports both Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.
See also
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
- Benchmark (computing)
- Futuremark