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2024-06-20 The nomination period for the Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award opens at the end of June. The award is open to dissertations defended between October 2022 and September 2024. The nomination deadline is September 30th, 2024 @23:59:59 AoE.

2024-06-11 SPEC has released a new ISO-compliant version of the SERT suite. The SERT 2.0.8 Suite adds support for regulatory certification with NVIDIA Grace, AMD Instinct MI300A, and Microsoft Pioneer platforms. Additionally, SERT 2.0.8 contains the latest PTDaemon 1.11.0 interface and support for newer LTS java versions. Documentation was updated with clarification on closed loop liquid cooling support.

2024-05-14 SPECapc announces the availability of the SPECapc® for Solidworks 2024 benchmark, an update to SPEC’s performance evaluation software for vendors and users of computing systems running Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks 2024 CAD/CAM software. The new version of the benchmark includes measurement for Hidden Line Removal (HLR), which has a dramatically improved algorithm.

2024-05-02 The SPECjbb® 2015 benchmark has been updated to version 1.04. This update fixes crashes which were observed during the testing with the very large core count systems. Licensees of versions 1.00, 1.01, 1.02 and 1.03 are entitled to a complimentary V1.04 upgrade. SPEC will be retiring V1.03 in August 2024, after which time all result submissions must be made with V1.04.

2024-03-06 Shreshth Tuli from the Imperial College London has been recognized as the winner of the 2023 Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award for his work, “AI and Co-Simulation Driven Resource Management in Fog Computing Environments” The award will be presented at the 15th Annual ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) conference.

2024-03-04 ICPE 2024 - Call for Participation (Early Registration until March 15, 2024): Registration is open for the full conference (3-day conference, workshops, tutorials) or Workshops and Tutorials only. Registration deadlines are Early: March 15, 2024, Regular: April 12, 2024 and Late/Onsite: May 11, 2024. 15th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Supported by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG.

2024-02-22 SPEC has released a new version of the PTDaemon® tool the software that allows power measurement devices to be incorporated into performance evaluation software. PTDaemon greatly simplifies power and temperature benchmarking with SPEC benchmarks, eliminating the need to understand and adapt to different power analyzer interface protocols and behaviors.

2024-02-20 Registration is now open for the Fifteenth ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), taking place May 7-11, 2024, in London.