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 measuring the performance of professional-level workstations and graphics subsystems.
  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 * Amazon Web Services, Inc. * Apple Inc. * ARM * ASUSTeK Computer Inc. * Avere Systems * Bull S.A. * Cavium Inc. * Cisco Systems, Inc. * Dell, Inc. * E4 Computer Engineering SPA * EMC * Fujitsu * Gartner, Inc. * Hitachi Data Systems * Hitachi Ltd. * HP * Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. * IBM * Inspur Corporation * Intel * Lenovo * Micron Technology, Inc. * Microsoft * NEC - Japan * NetApp * NVIDIA * Oracle * Panasas * Primary Data * Principled Technologies * Qualcomm Technologies Inc. * Quanta Computer Inc. * Red Hat * Samsung * SAP AG * Seagate * SGI * Sugon * Super Micro Computer, Inc. * SUSE * Symantec Corporation * Twitter, Inc. * Unisys * Via Technologies * VMware * Wipro Ltd. * ZTE Corporation *

SPEC Associates:

Acadamia Sinica, Institute of Information Science * Argonne National Laboratory * Charles University * China Academy of Telecommunication Research * Department of Veterans Affairs - Corporate Data Center Operations * Dresden University of Technology ZIH * fortiss GmbH * Indiana University * Institute for Information Industry Taiwan * JAIST * Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Leibniz Rechenzentrum - Germany * National University of Singapore * Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Ohio State University * Pennsylvania State University * Purdue University * RWTH Aachen University * Technische Universität Darmstadt * Technische Universität Dresden * Tsinghua University * University of Aizu - Japan * University of California - Berkeley * University of Cologne * University of Houston * 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 Wuerzburg * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *

SPEC Research Group:

Advanced Strategic Technology LLC * bankmark UG * Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Charles University * Cisco Systems * Cloudera, Inc * Compilaflows * Delft University of Technology * Dell * fortiss GmbH * Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg * Goethe University Frankfurt, Big Data Lab * Hewlett-Packard * Huawei * IBM * Imperial College London * Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay * Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan * Institute of Communication and Computer Systems/NTUA * Intel * Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Kiel University * MIOsoft Corporation * Mitre Corporation * NICTA * Nova-Tec Consulting GmbH * Oracle * Purdue University * Red Hat * RWTH Aachen University * SalesForce.com * San Diego Supercomputing Center * San Francisco State University * SAP AG * Siemens Corporation * Technische Universität Darmstadt * Technische Universität Dresden * The MITRE Corporation * Umea University * University of Alberta * University of Coimbra * University of Florence * University of Lugano * University of Minnesota * University of North Florida * University of Paderborn * University of Pavia * University of Stuttgart * University of Texas at Austin * University of Wuerzburg * VMware *