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The 2022 SPECtacular Award Winners
The SPECtacular Award is given to individuals who have significantly exceeded
expectations in their contributions to SPEC.
Outstanding Leadership
David Schmidt, SPECvirt®Datacenter 2021
David Schmidt led the Virtualization Committee in the creation of the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark. His leadership as Chair kept the committee's work focused to deliver the vision for this new benchmark. David's low-key yet energetic approach created a positive benchmark development environment and led the team on a very successful path to releasing the benchmark. In addition to chairing, David virtually wrote the Run and Reporting Rules and provided almost-daily test feedback. The committee relied heavily on David's breadth and depth of knowledge in datacenters and virtualization. David was able to use his impressive organizational and communication skills to seamlessly keep the committee on track, despite a recent employer change. He is a planner who helps the committee establish a roadmap, while maintaining the flexibility to consider innovative alternatives that deviate from the plan.
Technical Leadership
Chris Floyd, SPECvirt®Datacenter 2021
Chris Floyd has distinguished himself as the principal benchmark developer for the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark. He was responsible for overseeing the adaptation of the CloudPerf test framework to the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 harness. He was also key in designing the benchmark's synthetic departmental workloads and porting HammerDB. Chris developed many of the necessary control and monitoring scripts needed for the benchmark. Using his deep understanding of the low-level details of the benchmark's architecture, he authored the benchmark's design guide and tested all the kit builds of the benchmark on VMware.
Technical Leadership
Lisa Roderick, SPECvirt®Datacenter 2021
Lisa Roderick significantly contributed to the successful launch of the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark as leads for both documentation and the benchmark's VMware SDK. She championed the migration of the documentation to use the reStructuredText format, thus ensuring formatting consistency across all of the documentation. Lisa authored the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark user guide, FAQ and technical support documents. As a development lead, she adapted the SDK API control scripts from VMware to conform to the requirements of the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 harness and tested all of the benchmark kits on VMware.
Dedicated Service
Simon Eismann, SPEC Research Group
For several years, Simon Eismann has made significant contributions to the SPEC Research Group's (RG) Cloud Working Group and to the RG DevOps Performance Working Group. He led the study of performance of microservices and stability for serverless applications. He also led the effort to create a SPEC RG Technical Report reviewing serverless use cases, which led to the publication of related peer-reviewed papers. Simon has been an active participant in the organization of events that benefit the SPEC research community, served as an evaluator of artifacts, and contributed the TeaStore microservice reference application to the SPEC Research Tool Repository.
Technical Contribution
Mat Colgrove, SPEChpc™ 2021
Mat Colgrove is the project lead for the SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suites. In this position, he dedicated extensive time and effort to benchmark development. He also provided leadership and hands-on work to create the many kits that were necessary during the benchmark development process. Consistent and patient, Mat showed excellent leadership for the three years this benchmark was in development, enabling and encouraging the team of volunteers and leading by example. Mat performed this role while also serving on the Board of Directors and being responsible for the operation of the SPEC main office in his role as Vice President of SPEC.
Technical Contribution
Jeffrey Kelling, SPEChpc™ 2021
One of the important benchmark candidates for the SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suites, PiconGPU, is a challenging and sophisticated C++ application that stresses compilers and a software tool’s ability to support it. Just getting a successful compile with LLVM, a broadly used compiler, took a heroic effort. Jeffrey Kelling, however, persisted and was then able to provide valuable input to many SPEC members struggling to compile the code on their own compiler. Through these efforts, he advanced the development of these compilers by years and graciously shared his considerable skill and knowledge to solve the many technical issues this challenging benchmark candidate presented.
Technical Contribution
Junjie Li, SPEChpc™ 2021
Junjie Li performed extensive experimental evaluation of the SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suites candidates in large-scale and diverse computational facilities. The data collected and the performance data he provided was instrumental in the continued development of the benchmark candidates, the assessment of the candidates by SPEC members, and the selection of the benchmark candidates. Junjie provided valuable access and computing time at two different datacenters. These computing resources were very valuable to the HPG committee as they increased the diversity of the platforms available for the evaluation of the benchmarks. Junjie consistently performed these evaluations throughout the development cycle of the SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suites and led the effort in the writing of a manuscript that presents the results of his evaluation.
Technical Contribution
Hiroshi Ono, SPEChpc™ 2021
Hiroshi Ono contributed significant effort to the necessary benchmark candidate performance evaluation and scaling experiments for the SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suites. When further investigation was needed, he deepened his analysis and produced and interpreted hardware performance counter measurements to improve characterization of the benchmark candidates. The result of Hiroshi's investigation were very important for the selection of the benchmarks candidates. His analysis not only guided how much time the committee decided to allocate to certain candidates, but also identified unknown problems to be solved before launch. Hiroshi consistently performed these tasks for each kit over a two-year period.
Dedicated Service
Vojtěch Horký, SPEC Research Group
Vojětch Horký has done excellent work in his more than six years as the SPEC Research Group's (RG) Release Manager. He manages not only tool submissions and the SPEC RG Tool Repository, but also the entire SPEC RG website. In the past, Vojtěch led the migration of the SPEC RG website from TYPO3 to its new platform, contributed to the revision of SPEC RG membership information and FAQ, migrated and consolidated all ICPE web sites to the SPEC server, and represented RG on the Editorial Committee.
Outstanding Service
Petr Tůma, The International Conference on Performance Engineering
International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is the flagship conference for SPEC and a very important conference for the performance evaluation and engineering world at large. The CORE ranking list is used by researchers and administrators in many areas of the world to select top conferences. Thus, having ICPE listed in this rank is important for the continued success of the conference, and for the publication of work done in performance evaluation around the world. Petr Tůma worked diligently on the laborious process that is required to include ICPE in the official CORE ranking list. His contribution included learning the obscure CORE ranking application process, educating the RG Steering Committee, and then driving an extensive data-gathering process across the RG and the ICPE Steering Committee to secure support from high-ranking researchers in preparation for the final application package.
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