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:
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.
01/14/2010 - SPEC announces the release of SPECweb2005 v1.30. This update adds support for ASPX scripts to the existing JSP and PHP support. Current SPECweb2005 licensees may request a free upgrade.
12/09/2009 - Registration is still open for the first joint WOSP/SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering, being held in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGMETRICS, from January 28-30, 2010. See http://www.wosp-sipew.org/ for further information.
12/03/2009 - SPEC announces the release of SPECjEnterprise2010. This benchmark measures full-system performance for Java Enterprise Edition 5 or later application servers, databases and supporting infrastructure and expands the scope of the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark.
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/.
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