Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Joining SPEC

Membership in SPEC is open to any interested company or entity that is willing to commit to SPEC's standards.

SPEC is an umbrella organization that covers four groups, each with their own benchmark suites, rules and dues structure:

• Open Systems Group (OSG)
  Component- and system-level benchmarks in an UNIX / NT / VMS environment.
  Joining SPEC/OSG
  
  
• High Performance Group (HPG)
  Benchmarking in a numeric computing environment, with emphasis on high-performance numeric computing.
  Joining SPEC/HPG
  
  
• Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (GWPG)
  Benchmarks for graphical subsystems and OpenGL and Xwindows.
  Joining SPEC/GWPG
  
  
• Research Group (RG)
  Established to promote innovative research on benchmarking methodologies and tools facilitating the development of benchmark suites and performance analysis frameworks for established and newly emerging technologies.
  Joining SPEC's Research Group

Current SPEC Members

SPEC Members:

Acer Inc. * Action S.A. * Advanced Micro Devices * Apple Inc. * ASUSTeK Computer Inc. * Avere Systems * BlueArc * Bull S.A. * Cisco Systems, Inc. * Dell * E4 Computer Engineering SPA * EMC * Fujitsu * Hitachi Data Systems * Hitachi Ltd. * HP * Huawei Symantec Technologies Co. Ltd. * Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. * IBM * Intel * Itautec S/A * Lenovo * Microsoft * NEC - Japan * NetApp * Novell * NVIDIA * Oracle * Platform Computing Inc. * Principled Technologies * The Portland Group * QLogic Corporation * Red Hat * SAP AG * SGI * Super Micro Computer, Inc. * Symantec Corporation * Unisys * Via Technologies * VMware *

SPEC Associates:

Acadamia Sinica, Institute of Information Science * Austrian Energy Agency * Argonne National Laboratory * Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) * Charles University * Department of Veteran's Affairs - Corporate Data Center Operations * Dresden University of Technology ZIH * Indiana University * Institute for Information Industry Taiwan * JAIST * Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Leibniz Rechenzentrum - Germany * National University of Singapore * Ohio State University * Penn State * Purdue University * Technische Universität Darmstadt * Tsinghua University * University of Aizu - Japan * University of California - Berkeley * University of Cologne * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * University of Maryland * University of Miami * University of Pavia * University of Texas at Austin * University of Tsukuba * University of Virginia * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * Zhejiang University *

SPEC Research Group:

AMD * Charles University * Cisco Systems * Dell * Ghent University * Hewlett-Packard * IBM * Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay * Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan * Intel * Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * McGill University * NICTA * Northeastern University * Oracle * Purdue University * Red Hat * RWTH Aachen University * SalesForce.com * San Francisco State University * SAP * Siemens Corporation * Technische Universität Darmstadt * University of Alberta * University of California at Berkeley * University of Coimbra * University of Kiel * University of Mannheim * University of Minnesota * University of Pavia * University of Texas at Austin * VMware * Yahoo! Inc * Zhejiang University *