# \#windows **URL:** https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/tag/windows/244.md [Latest](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/tags.md) --- ## [Understanding compute demand & performance on Windows (VM)](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/understanding-compute-demand-performance-on-windows-vm/1040)
**Author:** [@wirawan0](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/wirawan0)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/understanding-compute-demand-performance-on-windows-vm/1040 "2019-10-21T14:38:00Z")
How can we obtain the metrics of performance and computational requirements for a compute-heavy workload that must run on Windows? Background: This question is related to how we can size a VM “just right” for a given c…