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2022-03-22 The SPECapc® project group releases the new SPECapc® for 3ds Max 2020 benchmark for workstations running Autodesk 3ds Max 2020. The new benchmark replaces the SPECapc® for 3ds Max 2015 benchmark and includes 43 tests for comprehensive measurement of CPU and GPU performance with modeling, interactive graphics and visual effects.
2022-03-18 André Bauer from the University of Würzburg has been recognized as the winner of the 2021 Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award for his work, “Automated Hybrid Time Series Forecasting: Design, Benchmarking, and Use Cases.” The award will be presented at the 13th Annual ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) conference in April 2022.
2022-03-17 The 13th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) will be virtual this year and is open for registration. ICPE is also included for the first time in the CORE ranking with rank B. More details are here.
2022-03-10 SPEC has announced the formation of the SPEC Machine Learning Committee. The new committee will develop practical methodologies for benchmarking artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) performance in the context of real-world platforms and environments.
2022-03-03 SPECgpc® released a Linux Edition of its SPECviewperf® 2020 v3.0 performance benchmark, the worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications. The SPECviewperf 2020 v3.0 Linux Edition benchmark enables hardware and software vendors and consumers to measure the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL application programming interface.
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?" This article, and a companion video, use the original SPECmark benchmark to show relative performance on a modern system versus a system from the 1970s.
December 9, 2021: The SPECgpc® project group has released the SPECviewperf® 2020 v3.0 benchmark. The worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications, the SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark measures the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL and Direct X application programming interfaces.
October 28, 2021: SPEC has released the SPEChpc™ 2021 Benchmark Suites, designed to provide a comprehensive measure of real-world performance for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Offering science and engineering codes that are representative of HPC workloads and are portable across CPU and accelerators, the benchmark includes four suites, Tiny, Small, Medium, and Large, enabling fair vendor-neutral comparisons of the performance of different HPC systems, ranging from a single node to hundreds of nodes with support multiple programming models, including MPI, MPI+OpenACC, MPI+OpenMP, and MPI+OpenMP with target offload.