The RIB framework has been written in 2005-2007 by Vlastimil Babka <babka@dsrg.mff.cuni.cz>
for experiments performed for his master thesis (for the thesis and results see
the msc-thesis branch).
In 2007-2008 it has been further extended and improved while using the
framework for experiments carried withing the Q-ImPrESS project.

The framework home page is http://dsrg.mff.cuni.cz/benchmarking

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The RIB framework uses several thirdparty libraries either as a support
functionality or as the workload that is measured in the benchmarks.

Some of them are optional (see INSTALL) and most are included in the svn
repository for easier integration.

The list follows:

PAPI - http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/
  - library used for accessing performance counters

ncompress - http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/
  - LZW compression, used as measured workload

FFT - ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/fft
  - used as simple FFT workload

FFTW - http://www.fftw.org/
  - used as optimized FFT workload

simple raytracer - TODO

zlib - http://www.zlib.net/
gzstream - http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/
  - to compress tables of results

R - http://www.r-project.org/
  - used to plot results