Overview

Rendezvous performance assessment software is a tool for evaluators, reviewers, and network administrators. It measures the potential performance of Rendezvous software in an actual network situation, and outputs a detailed report.

This performance assessment software helps you compare various equipment options and network configurations, using the performance of Rendezvous software as a gauge.

Remember that speed benchmarks are relevant only in the context of a specific network with specific computers. Networks can differ widely in their performance. Adding or removing a problematic computer can dramatically alter performance.

Rendezvous benchmark data is not a guarantee of application performance. It demonstrates the potential maximum performance that your network can achieve. Although it can model common application behaviors regarding message sending and receiving, it cannot exactly mimic the actual performance of your Rendezvous applications. The performance assessment tool stresses message transport capabilities, but does not engage in other common application behaviors, such as calculations or managing a graphics display.

The performance assessment tool can establish an upper bound on application message transport performance, and help gauge some of the secondary effects of network usage patterns, but it cannot prove that an application as a whole will operate properly.