The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops benchmark suites and also reviews and publishes submitted results from our member organizations and other benchmark licensees.
What's New:
10/22/2009 - SPEC has released a new version of the SPECweb2009 benchmark. The updated version 1.10 includes new ASPX scripts in addition to the previously included PHP and JSP based scripts. Results from using each of these types of scripts will have different metric names and will be tabulated separately.
09/09/2009 - SPEC has formed a new working group to develop standard methods of measuring performance for typical middleware, database and hardware deployments of applications based on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
09/04/2009 - The SPECpower committee declares its intent to design, develop and deliver a next generation tool set that will measure and evaluate the performance and power of computer servers over a wider spectrum of functionality. The tool set will have the potential to be adopted by the EPA for use in the US EPA Server Energy Star program and to form a solid basis for the next generation SPECpower benchmark.
07/08/2009 - SPEC/GWPG announces the release of the SPECapc for Maya® 2009 benchmark, available now for download.
07/06/2009 - The submission deadline for papers and tutorial proposals for the First Joint WOSP/SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering has been extended to July 21. See http://www.wosp-sipew.org/ for further information.
06/29/2009 - The SPEC CPU Benchmark Search program is currently accepting submissions of applications that could be used in the next SPEC CPU suite; submissions that are accepted by SPEC and are included in the next suite earn their submitters $5000 and a license for the new suite (when released).
06/05/2009 - SPEC announces the release of the SPECweb2009 web server performance benchmark suite. New with SPECweb2009 is a power workload, with measurements based on the SPECpower methodology, and a performance/power metric.
05/06/2009 - Announcing the First Joint WOSP/SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering, in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGMETRICS, to be held January 28-30, 2010. The deadline for submission of papers and tutorial proposals is July 7, 2009. For more information, please see http://www.wosp-sipew.org/.
[Older items can be found in the archive.]