SPEC News
Below, ordered by time with the most recent items first, are listings of all of SPEC’s announcements through the years covering all our products and services and their updates.
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Nominations for the Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2023
2023-06-26 RG News - Nominations for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award are now open to dissertations that have been defended between October 2021 and September 2023. A thesis can be nominated only once, which means that a 2022 thesis nominated in 2023 cannot be nominated again in 2024. Questions about the application process can be e-mailed to: nominations@spec.org.
ICPE 2023 Marks Return to In-Person Events
2023-06-25 This year’s ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering marked an exciting return to an in-person conference, and nearly 150 attendees enjoyed three keynote speeches, 28 research presentations, seven data challenge presentations, a range of workshops and more.
SPEC HPG Benchmark Search Program
2023-06-25 SPEC HPG Search program - SPEC is seeking to encourage those outside of SPEC to assist us in locating applications that could be used in the next SPEC high performance computing benchmark suite. For more details, go here.
14th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)
2023-02-09 The 14th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) will be held April 15-19, 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal.
SPEC Forms Client Systems Standardized Benchmark Committee
2022-12-14 The International Standards Group (ISG) has formed the Client Efficiency Committee to oversee the establishment and development of standardized client computing benchmarks for use primarily in national and international standards organizations, governmental regulations and energy efficiency programs for client computing systems. The benchmarks will focus on application types that are often used on notebooks, desktops and workstations.
SPEC CPU 2017 V1.1.9 Released
2022-12-01 The OSG CPU Committee has released version 1.1.9 of the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suite. The new update includes: an initial toolset to enable limited usage on RISC-V architectures (reportable runs not supported at this time), improved automated system configuration gathering tools (sysinfo) and new Academic Pricing ($50). Please note, as of February 28, 2023, all SPEC CPU 2017 results submitted to SPEC must use version 1.1.9.
SPEC Forms Server Standardized Benchmark Committee
2022-10-25 The International Standards Group (ISG) has formed the Server Efficiency Committee to oversee the establishment and development of standardized server benchmarks for use primarily in governmental regulations and compliance programs related to energy use and sustainability.