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.
The SPEC office will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2009.
What's New:
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/.
04/17/2009 - SPEC's privacy policy has been updated. A list of recent changes, effective as of April 17, 2009, can be found in the policy statement.
04/15/2009 - SPEC announces blade server support with the release of SPECpower_ssj2008 1.10. This release adds several new capabilities including support for measuring multi-node (blade) servers, further automation of power measurement, support for multiple power analyzers, and a visual activity monitor which provides real-time graphic display of data collected while running the benchmark. This update will be provided on CD at no charge to existing licensees of the software.
04/06/2009 - SPEC announces the release of SPECapc for Lightwave 3D® v9.6. The benchmark is available now as a free download for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista 32- and 64-bit platforms.
03/10/2009 - SPEC announces the release of SPECmail2009, a new version of the enterprise mail server benchmark featuring a new workload, support for SSL/TLS encryption, and improved interoperability across different platforms. An initial set of results is available.
[Older items can be found in the archive.]