SPEC Notes

February 24, 2020: The Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award selection committee has chosen the winning dissertation. It was authored by Guanpeng Li of University of British Columbia, under the supervision of Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman. The selection committee was especially impressed with the quality and clarity of Dr. Li’s dissertation. The award will be presented at the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) in April 2020.

Given the high quality of dissertations nominated for this award, the committee decided to also publicly recognize another dissertation authored by Dr. Bin Nie under the supervision of Prof. Evgenia Smirni at the College of William & Mary as the runner-up to the award. Honorable mentions were awarded to Pamela Delgado from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), under the supervision of Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel, and Dr. Johannes Hofmann from Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Wellein.

Archived SPEC News Items December 10, 2021: The IEEE Micro Special Issue on the Microprocessor at 50 includes an article by SPEC's John Henning, "How Many VAXes Fit in the Palms of Your Hands?" The article, and a companion video, use the original SPECmark benchmark to show relative performance on a modern system vs. a system from the 1970s. December 9, 2021: The SPECgpc® project group has released the SPECviewperf® 2020 v3.