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EEMBC Update - August 2010

EEMBC Launches Project to Develop Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Benchmarks

Chaired by Jeff Caldwell of SonicWALL, the DPIBench working group is developing a suite of network security performance benchmarks for measuring DPI product throughput. A key differentiation between the traditional firewall and the new breed of Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Next Generation Firewall devices is the advent of deep packet inspection (DPI). DPI is utilized to identify and halt flows of network traffic containing malware and/or to classify traffic flows into application specific categories.

The EEMBC DPIBench will highlight the strengths and weaknesses of DPI systems, processors, and middleware. The DPIBench benchmark will measure throughput and latency and quantify the number of flows. It will also enable consumers of firewall technologies with an objective means of selecting a solution from the myriad of vendor offerings.

Example systems targeted by DPIBench:

• CheckPoint UTM-1
• Cisco ISR-G2
• Fortinet Fortigate
• Juniper Networks SRX
• McAfee Firewall Enterprise
• Netgear Prosecure
• Palo Alto Networks PA Series
• SonicWALL NSA
• Watchguard Firebox
• Zyxel ZyWALL

For more information: /benchmark/dpibench_sl.php

Participation is open to all EEMBC Networking subcommittee and Board of Directors members. For further information on joining, please contact Markus Levy, EEMBC president.

Update on BrowsingBench

In the previous newsletter, we described the new EEMBC workgroup that is developing a benchmark to measure the user’s browser experience. BrowsingBench will measure the complete user-experience from the click/touch on a URL to final page rendered on the screen. Progress continues to be made on BrowsingBench - most significantly, is that we’ve resolved a compliance methodology to allow apples-to-apples comparisons between systems and browsers.

Events Coming Up

On September 27-28, EEMBC will be exhibiting as an industry sponsor at the Linley Tech Processor Conference, a single track event providing a forum for new product announcements, interactive panel discussions and networking opportunities with industry leaders focused on processors and related technologies for networking and communications applications. For more information: http://www.linleygroup.com/Seminars/conference_fall.html

At the Embedded Software Engineering Kongress, join EEMBC president Markus Levy, on December 7-9, 2010 — Sindelfingen, Germany, where he will be presenting "The Challenges, Options, and Advantages of Designing with Multicore Technology" on December 9 at 9:45am EEMBC will also be exhibiting. For more information: http://www.ese-kongress.de/english

CoreMark Updates

Over 2050 users have downloaded the CoreMark benchmark, with 165 scores posted to the website. During the prior two months, users have posted CoreMark scores for the following processor/compiler combinations:

Reminders

Free EnergyBench available with licensing of any EEMBC microprocessor benchmark suite.

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