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² Microsoft Excel* 2007 executing approximately 28,000 sets of calculations using commonly used calculations and function in Microsoft Excel. These include common arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, division, rounding, square root, max, min, median, and average. The input file is a 6.2MB spreadsheet.
³ Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) requires a computer system with a processor supporting Intel HT Technology and an Intel HT Technology-enabled chipset, BIOS and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. The Intel® Core™ i5-750 desktop processor does not support Intel HT Technology. For more information, including details on which processors support Intel HT Technology, see www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/hyper-threading/index.htm.
° This workload is a spreadsheet calculation while WinZip* software compresses and decompresses files in the background. The spreadsheet calculates the European put and call option valuation for Black-Scholes* option pricing model using Monte Carlo simulation*. The Black-Scholes model is used to calculate a theoretical call and put price using the five key determinants of an option's price: stock price, strike price, volatility, time to expiration, and short-term (risk free) interest rate. The workload is execution of approximately 300,000 iterations of Monte Carlo simulation using the Black-Scholes basic option pricing formula in Microsoft Excel* 2007. In addition, the workload uses Excel* lookup functions to compare the put price from the model with the historical market price for 50,000 rows to understand the convergence. The input file is a 70.1 MB spreadsheet. The second task is WinZip 14 application that decompresses an encrypted archive containing 200 photos, 125 of which are 10MP photos and 75 which are 6MP photos. The photos are in JPEG format. The total size of all the photos is about 830MB.
± MobileMark* 2007 is a benchmark used to evaluate notebook PC user experience by measuring both performance and battery life at the same time on the same workload.
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