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:
04/11/2012: - SPEC's Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released SPECapc for Siemens NX 6. The benchmark is freely available for download.
04/05/2012: - SPECjEnterprise2010 v1.03 is now available. This update includes performance-neutral changes to address known issues. Beginning May 1, 2012, all result submissions must be made using version 1.03. Licensees of earlier versions of the SPECjEnterprise2010 software may request a free update to 1.03 by contacting SPEC.
03/26/2012: - ICPE 2012, the Third ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, will be held April 22-25 in Boston, MA. Advance registration for the technical program and tutorials ends on April 15.
02/07/2012: - SPEC's Research Group (SPEC RG) opens a repository of peer-reviewed tools for quantitative system evaluation and analysis. As a contribution to the community, SPEC RG addresses the need for a collection of tools that have undergone a thorough review process by multiple independent experts to ensure high quality, maturity and relevance.
01/18/2012: - SPEC is beginning investigation of a proposed new benchmark that would measure compute-intensive performance of handheld devices such as tablets and smart phones. The first face-to-face meeting in the exploratory process will be held Monday morning, January 30, in San Jose, Calif. Anyone interested in attending this meeting or participating in the handheld working group should contact SPEC at corporate@spec.org for more information and registration.
01/04/2012: - SPEC's Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) is seeking applications, algorithms and workloads for a proposed workstation performance benchmark.
01/03/2012: - Reminder: The SPECweb2005 and SPECweb2009 benchmarks will be retired on January 12. After that date, no further result submissions for publication will be accepted and technical support for the software will end. Please see the retirement notice for information regarding post-retirement publication of results independently of SPEC.
12/22/2011: - Luk Van Ertvelde of Ghent University and Kai Sachs of TU Darmstadt first to win new SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award.
12/15/2011: - REMINDER: Starting at 3AM Eastern US Time on December 20, 2011, SPEC will stop accepting SPEC CPU2006 V1.1 results for publication on the SPEC website; at that point SPEC will only accept SPEC CPU2006 V1.2 results. For more information about SPEC CPU2006 V1.2, please see http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/press/v1.2release.html.
11/14/2011 - SPEC/HPG developing new benchmark to evaluate systems with floating-point accelerator
09/28/2011 - SPEC releases first beta of Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT)
09/13/2011 - SPECpower_ssj2008 V1.11 has been released. This update includes several enhancements and code changes to all benchmark components, documentation updates, and run and reporting rules enhancements. All SPECpower_ssj2008 results published after December 13, 2011 must use version 1.11. All existing licensees will receive a notice on how to get a free update.
[Older items can be found in the archive.]