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November 13th, 2024
An IT architect designing a virtualization-focused data center faces a variety of crucial choices.
We are delighted to share insights and highlights from the recently concluded 15th annual ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2024, held May 7-11th in the historic and vibrant city of London. ICPE has been the flagship conference in the area of performance engineering over the years and has a tradition of bringing together both academic scholars and industrial practitioners in discussing the recent advances in the area.
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.
Nikki is a procurement manager at a large digital media and marketing company that offers vertical solutions for a range of industries, including media and entertainment, life sciences and ecommerce. She was tasked with purchasing over 300 new workstations to satisfy the needs of power users across the company – while staying within a finite budget.
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.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) makes available 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.
To keep vendors and users apprised of how such updates affect the performance of computer systems running particular software, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) builds robust standardized benchmarks and tools for evaluating that performance efficiency.