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An approach is presented to compare the performance of an existing production platform and a proposed replacement architecture. The traditional approach to such a comparison is to develop software for the proposed platform, build the new architecture, and collect performance measurements on both the existing system in production and the new system in the development environment. In this paper we propose a new way to design an application-independent workload for doing such a performance evaluation. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach by describing our experience using it to help an industrial organization determine whether or not a proposed architecture would be adequate to meet their organization's performance requirements.
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