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:
07/14/2010 - SPEC announces the release of SPECvirt_sc2010, SPEC's first benchmark addressing performance evaluation of datacenter servers used in virtualized server consolidation. SPECvirt_sc2010 measures the end-to-end performance of all system components including the hardware, virtualization platform, and the virtualized guest operating system and application software.
07/13/2010 - SPEC announces a call for papers for the 2011 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE). Please see the call for papers for deadlines for the various submission tracks and tutorial proposals.
06/23/2010 - SPECgpc announces the release of SPECviewperf® 11, now available for download or on DVD.
06/21/2010 - The submission deadline for papers for the October 2010 Benchmark Workshop has been extended from June 14 to June 28.
05/17/2010 - SPEC announces the release of SPECmail2009 v1.01. This update addresses an existing issue with international date formats and more robust IMAP4 server interactions. Current SPECmail2009 licensees may request a free upgrade by contacting SPEC.
04/30/2010 - SPEC has issued a call for papers for its October 2010 Benchmark Workshop to be held in Paderborn, Germany. Submissions are due by June 14, 2010.
03/01/2010 - A new version, 1.3.10, of SPEC's PTDaemon is now available. Please see the SPECpower_ssj2008 Accepted Measurement Devices page for updated power analyzer support and instructions for updating your PTDaemon binary to the latest version.
02/02/2010 - SPEC announces the release of MPI2007 v2.0, which adds the MPIL2007 suite to allow testing up to 2048 ranks. For further information on new and updated features, please see the list of changes in v2.0.
[Older items can be found in the archive.]