Located in the foothills of Arkansas’ beautiful Ouachita Mountains and just a stone’s throw away from the rugged Cossatot River, Cossatot Analytics Laboratories, abbreviated “CAna Labs,” delivers a variety of crucial domestic outsourcing services to the computing industry. Our services include system level validation, performance testing and analysis, energy consumption characterization, software tools and custom benchmark development.

We focus on serving CPU manufacturers, operating system vendors and computer system OEMs. We also provide product qualification services for merchants, government agencies and corporate purchasing agents. All of our services are delivered under strict confidentiality.

CAna Labs conducts system level validation services across several hundred benchmarks and applications running on Microsoft and Linux operating systems. Basic peripheral testing is included.

CAna Labs executes performance tests under rigorous conditions to ensure result reproducibility and establish result validity. Our performance analysis is industry proven.

CAna Labs also produces custom validation software tools and custom benchmarks created in a variety of high level languages, x86 assembler and AutoIT scripting (AutoIT scripting is limited to Windows platforms).

About Cossatot Analytics Laboratories

Van Smith is the founder of CAna Labs. Van is a senior member of the technical staff for AMD where he writes server benchmarks. He also represents AMD on the SPEC CPU committee where he serves as Chair. He helped develop SPEC CPU 2017, and he is currently guiding the next generation successor to that benchmark.

While serving on the SPECpower committee, Van helped develop SERT and wrote several worklets as well as provided testing and analysis. He was given a SPECtacular award for his work on SERT.

For nearly eight years, Van worked for the x86 microprocessor designer Centaur Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of VIA Technologies. At Centaur, Van was head of benchmarking where he oversaw performance testing for R&D, system level validation and marketing purposes.

Van’s performance analysis helped VIA become the world’s largest supplier of thin client CPUs. Van also contributed to the VIA Nano’s performance improvements by conducting a variety of performance experiments for Centaur’s logic team.

Van created benchmarks, validation tools and testing software for Centaur and VIA. Van has worked closely with many benchmark designers and has influenced and/or directly contributed to several major computer benchmarks. Van represented VIA Technologies within the BAPCo consortium.

Van is also an accomplished computer industry analyst, writer and software designer.

Van has a degree in physics and was granted a Top Secret Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information clearance. He achieved the highest score on record in the U.S. Army’s Nuclear Weapons Maintenance program.

Contact

Please send inquiries to contact@canalabs.com.