We benchmarked an ARM cortex-A9 based server system with a four-core CPU running at 1.1 GHz. The system used Ubuntu 12.04 as operating system and the HEPSPEC 2006 (HS06) benchmarking suite was compiled natively with gcc-4.4 on the system. The benchma
rk was run for various settings of the relevant gcc compiler options. We did not find significant influence from the compiler options on the benchmark result. The final HS06 benchmark result is 10.4.
We describe a measurement of the strong coupling alpha_S(m_Z) from the 3-jet rate in hadronic final states of e+e- annihilation recorded with the JADE detector at centre-of-mass energies of 14 to 44 GeV. The jets are reconstructed with the Durham jet
clustering algorithm. The JADE 3-jet rate data are compared with QCD predictions in NNLO combined with resummed NNLA calculations. We find good agreement between the data and the prediction and extract alpha_S(m_Z)= 0.1199 +/- 0.0010(stat.) +/- 0.0021(exp.) +/- 0.0054(had.) +/- 0.0007(theo.).
Event Shape Data from $e^+e^-$ annihilation into hadrons collected by the JADE experiment at centre-of-mass energies between 14 GeV and 44 GeV are used to determine the strong coupling $alpha_S$. QCD predictions complete to next-to-next-to-leading or
der (NNLO), alternatively combined with resummed next-to-leading-log-approximation (NNLO+NLLA) calculations, are used. The combined value from six different event shape observables at the six JADE centre-of-mass energies using the NNLO calculations is $alpha_S(M_Z)$= 0.1210 +/- 0.0007(stat.) +/- 0.0021(expt.) +/- 0.0044(had.) +/- 0.0036(theo.) and with the NNLO+NLLA calculations the combined value is $alpha_S$= 0.1172 +/- 0.0006(stat.) +/- 0.0020(expt.) +/- 0.0035(had.) +/- 0.0030(theo.) . The stability of the NNLO and NNLO+NLLA results with respect to missing higher order contributions, studied by variations of the renormalisation scale, is improved compared to previous results obtained with NLO+NLLA or with NLO predictions only. The observed energy dependence of $alpha_S$ agrees with the QCD prediction of asymptotic freedom and excludes absence of running with 99% confidence level.
Event shape data from e+e- annihilation into hadrons collected by the JADE experiment between sqrt(s)=14 and 44 GeV are used to determine the strong coupling alpha_S. QCD predictionscomplete to next-to-next-to-leading order (NLLO), alternatively comb
ined with next-to-leading-log-approximation (NLLA) are used. The stability of the NNLO and NNLO+NLLA results with respect to variations of the renormalisation scale is improved compared to previous results obtained with next-to-leading-order (NLO) or NLO+NLLA predictions. The energy dependence of alpha_S agrees with the QCD prediction of asymptotic freedom and excludes absence of running with 99% confidence level.
Recent results on measurements of the strong coupling $alpha_S$ from LEP are reported. These include analyses of the 4-jet rate using the Durham or Cambridge algorithm, of hadronic $Z^0$ decays with hard final state photon radiation, of scaling viola
tions of the fragmentation function, of the longitudinal cross section, of the $Z^0$ lineshape and of hadronic $tau$ lepton decays.
