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2023-10-30 SPEC announced that EEMBC®, the 25-year-old Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, has become SPEC’s new Embedded Group (SPEC EG). EEMBC is known for developing industry-standard benchmarks for measuring the performance and energy efficiency of embedded processor hardware and software used in autonomous driving, mobile imaging, the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile devices, and more. The addition of EEMBC broadens SPEC’s portfolio with more than 15 highly regarded benchmarks for embedded computers and enables both organizations to share workloads and infrastructure costs to allow for more investment in research and development.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) provides updates on their activities around the Siggraph time frame, focusing on three primary committees: SPECapc, SPECgpc, and SPECwpc.
An IT Manager at a rapidly growing financial services company, needed to specify the hardware required for the company’s new private cloud deployment. He was pleased to find the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark, which offered several benefits compared to the 2013 version – and to any of the other tools John had in his arsenal.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has announced this month the availability of the SPECapc for Maya 2024 benchmark, a new version of the worldwide standard for measuring the performance of computing systems running Autodesk Maya, one of the 3D software industry’s leading applications.
2023-08-29 SPEC’s Call for nominations for the Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2022. The program is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 2021 and September 2022. Deadline for submissions is October 21, 2022. Questions about the application process can be e-mailed to the Selection Committee.
The benchmark has undergone a significant transformation with three major upgrades since it first released for Creo 3, and we are particularly gratified with being able to work directly with PTC on this update. In addition to new test cases that exercise features added to Creo over the last few releases, we have significantly enhanced the benchmark’s interface to make it far more user-friendly.
2023-08-11 SPEC’s new Machine Learning Committee is hard at work developing practical methodologies for benchmarking artificial intelligence and machine learning performance in the context of real-world platforms and environments. Learn more on our blog.