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in particular, complicates benchmarking since some workloads are "grid friendly", while others are not.
* Users can have very different perceptions of performance than benchmarks may suggest. In particular, users appreciate predictability -- servers that always meet or exceed service level agreements. Benchmarks tend to emphasize mean scores (IT perspective), rather than maximum worst-case response times (real-time computing perspective), or low

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