Current research operating systems such as K42 use [1] the reaim [2] form of the benchmark for performance analysis.
The original code was developed by Gene Dronek for AIM Technology, Inc., who licensed it to others.
The suite was expanded and enhanced to become multi-user benchmarks by Donald Steiny.
Each subrun reports a metric of jobs completed per minute, with the final report for the overall benchmark being a table of that throughput metric versus number of tasks.
A given system will have a peak number of tasks N at which the jobs per minute is maximized.