Klaus-Dieter Lange has served on the SPEC board of directors since 2007. During this time, he has driven the acceptance of the SERT® suite into many government regulations, for example, the U.S. EPA Energy Star for Enterprise Server regulations, the Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/424 (aka Lot9), Japan METI Top Runner for Servers, and the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC39 21836:2020 International Standard. He is the founding chair of SPECpower Committee, which developed and maintains the SPECpower_ssj® 2008 benchmark, the SPEC PTDaemon® interface, the Chauffeur® Worklet Development Kit, and the SERT® suite. Klaus is a founding member of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), SPEC Research Group (RG) and the International Standards Group (ISG) and has served on their steering committees since their inception in 2009, 2011, and 2020.

Prior SPEC Roles

Klaus is an award-winning author, publishing 60+ research papers and three books based on his work on performance, energy efficiency, security, and SPEC benchmarks. He has lent his experience to program committees of many conferences and workshops over the years and regularly served on the selection committee for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award. Klaus also served as the General co-chair for the ICPE'14 in Dublin, as well as the SPEC Symposium 2016 Asia Summit in Beijing.

Industry Role

Klaus is a distinguished technologist and the performance strategist for the Compute, HPC & AI Group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where he started his professional career in 1998. His focus is on workload optimization, compute performance, server efficiency, and the design of secure and efficient enterprise solutions. Klaus is HPE's primary SPEC representative to the Open Systems Group (OSG), High Performance Group (HPG), Research Group (RG), and the International Standards Group (ISG).