SPEC Notes

August 3, 2020: The 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2021, is set to be held April 19-23, 2021, in Rennes, France.

July 3, 2020: SPEC is calling for nominations for the Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2020. The program is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 2019 and September 2020. Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2020.

June 3, 2020: The serverless computing paradigm delivers major benefits for cloud applications —low-cost, fine-grained deployment, and management-free operation. Read more in this SPEC Research Group report.

May 22, 2020: Through the years, the SPECviewperf® benchmark has grown from a 55 MB download back in 2000 to a 7 GB download for the current SPECviewperf® 13 benchmark, to an estimated 18 GB download for the upcoming SPECviewperf® 2020 benchmark. Read about the full evolution of the benchmark over more than 25 years.

May 15, 2020: Accurately assessing CAD workstation performance means taking into account variances such as dataset complexity, users’ most critical tasks, and how the design is affected by downstream operations within the product development cycle. A new article featuring SPEC/GWPG members.

April 20, 2020: Video presentations from the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering 2020 (ICPE 2020) are now live on YouTube!

March 20, 2020: The 11th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, scheduled for April 20-24, will not be held as planned.

February 25, 2020: The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) announces that it is offering rewards of up to $9,000 and a free benchmark license for application code and datasets accepted under its benchmark search program.