CPW (Commercial Processing Workload)
Also known as: Commercial Processing Workload
An IBM i benchmark used to compare relative processing capacity across Power Systems generations and models.
Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is IBM's benchmark metric for comparing relative processor capacity on IBM i systems across Power Systems generations and models. CPW ratings are commonly used during sizing conversations to compare a current system against candidate Power11 configurations, alongside rPerf for AIX and Linux comparisons.