METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR METERING USAGE OF SOFTWARE PRODUCTS BASED ON REAL-TIME BENCHMARKING OF PROCESSING POWER

摘要

solution 300 to measure the usage of software products on a data processing system is proposed. In this context, it is essential to know (for example, based on different accounting licensing billing unit (acounting) possibly to a) general purpose execution of software products each of the processing capabilities of the computer. In the proposed solution, the processing power is estimated dynamically on the computer directly. To this end, the write to the low level language (single-threaded (single-threaded)) for example, the benchmark program is executed at the beginning or the interval (308-322). In this manner, by dividing the measured execution time of the benchmark program by the number of the known instruction 324, it is possible to determine an execution rate of a single microprocessor of the computer. Detected (306 to 322) multiplying the number of 326, the value of the running rate and the available microprocessors provides an accurate estimate of the processing power of the computer. The desired result is achieved for any knowledge of the physical details of the computer, without the need for ever, which is particularly useful when a computer is composed of a logical guest machine implemented on a physical host machine.