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. * Cisco Systems, Inc. * Dell, Inc. * E4 Computer Engineering SPA * EMC * Fujitsu * Gartner, Inc. * Hitachi Data Systems * Hitachi Ltd. * HP * Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. * IBM * Intel * Lenovo * Microsoft * NEC - Japan * NetApp * NVIDIA * Oracle * Platform Computing Inc. * Primary Data * Principled Technologies * Qualcomm Technologies Inc. * Quanta Compute Inc. * Red Hat * Samsung * SAP AG * Seagate * SGI * Sugon * Super Micro Computer, Inc. * SUSE * Symantec Corporation * Twitter, Inc. * Unisys * Via Technologies * VMware * Voxeo Corporation *

SPEC Associates:

Acadamia Sinica, Institute of Information Science * Austrian Energy Agency * Argonne National Laboratory * 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 * MIT Lincoln Laboratory * National University of Singapore * Ohio State University * Pennsylvania State University * Purdue University * RWTH Aachen University * Technische Universität Darmstadt * 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 * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *

SPEC Research Group:

Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Charles University * Cisco Systems * Compilaflows * Delft University of Technology * Dell * ForTISS GmbH * Hewlett-Packard * Huawei * IBM * Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay * Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan * Intel * Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Kiel University * MIT Lincoln Laboratory * Mitre Corporation * NICTA * Nova-Tec Consulting GmbH * Oracle * Purdue University * Red Hat * RWTH Aachen University * SalesForce.com * San Francisco State University * SAP AG * Siemens Corporation * Technische Universität Berlin * Technische Universität Darmstadt * The MITRE Corporation * University of Alberta * University of California at Berkeley * University of Coimbra * University of Florence * University of Minnesota * University of North Florida * University of Paderborn * University of Pavia * University of Stuttgart * University of Texas at Austin * University Politechnica of Bucharest * VMware *