Introduction to SYSmark 2004 Second Edition

SYSmark 2004 SE is the product of a cooperative development by the members of the Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo). It includes everything you need for automatic, consistent, and scientific performance evaluation of computers running Microsoft Windows XP (Professional or Home) with Service Pack 2 and Windows XP 64. It consists of the following:

Workload Scenarios
Workload Manager

Please note that SYSmark 2004 SE and other BAPCo benchmarks are intended for performance testing only - they are not intended and should not be used by themselves for other purposes such as compatibility or quality/reliability testing, since they do not exhaustively test all aspects of the system.