The 2022 SPEC Contributor Award Winners
The SPEC Contributor Award is given to an individual or team that made significant
contributions to bringing a new benchmark, tool, project or event to a successful conclusion.
Dedication
Cor-Paul Bezemer, SPEC Research Group
Cor-Paul Bezemer has contributed a tremendous amount of time and effort to the SPEC
Research Group (RG) in his positions of Secretary, DevOps Vice Chair, Co-Program
Chair of ICPE 2021, Workshop and Financial Chair of ICPE 2020, and Program Committee
member of ICPE since 2018. Cor-Paul is one of the main drivers of the ICPE 2021 event
and was one of the local organizers of ICPE 2020. He has contributed to the success
of SPEC's RG DevOps group with a contribution of significant research.
Technical Leadership
Allen Jensen, SPECapc® for Solidworks
When it comes to developing application-specific benchmarks, maintaining
a strong relationship with the vendor is extremely beneficial because
the vendor can provide vital subject-matter expertise, development support
and troubleshooting. In working on Solidworks benchmarks, Allen Jensen
has established and maintained a collaborative synergy with Dassault Systèmes
that has been key to a faster pace of development and a higher quality
benchmark. Allen ensures that the benchmark is performing correctly and
delivering an accurate measurement without taking any artificial shortcuts.
This is a vital task to ensuring SPEC upholds its mission of delivering
fair, trusted benchmarks.
Technical Contribution
Jonathan Konieczy, SPECviewperf® 2020
Jonathan Konieczy has consistently provided the Graphics Workstation
Performance Group (GWPG) with strong and valuable technical expertise
in graphics. In 2021, with SPECviewperf 2020 v2 and v3, he resolved
issues with the Solidworks viewset to allow a quick turnaround and
customer update. A 20+ year veteran of the graphics industry, Jonathan
always sparks important discussions about key considerations and goes
the extra mile to make sure GWPG is making smart choices about the
benchmarks it develops.
Technical Contribution
Nishant Rawtani and Luis Mendoza, International Standards Group
In mid-June, the Chinese government communicated that they were
developing a regulatory server energy efficiency benchmark named
BenchSEE. In order to drive commonality across the different energy
efficiency metrics for government usage, the industry needed a
quick and detailed review of the benchmark to provide feedback
within a very tight deadline, and asked SPEC if it could help.
Nishant Rawtani and Luis Mendoza jumped at the challenge and set
up eight platforms across three different CPU architectures in
order to gain insights into the BenchSEE 1.2.3 benchmark. Working
over weekends and overcoming numerous technical issues with BenchSEE,
Nishant and Luis collected significant feedback, which was shared
with The Green Grid by SPEC's newly formed International Standards
Group (ISG) as the foundation of industry feedback to the Chinese
government. This work not only helped the industry, but also reignited
a collaboration between SPEC and The Green Grid, which is very strategic
for SPEC's ISG.
Nishant Rawtani
Luis Mendoza
Technical Leadership
SPEChpc™ 2021 Benchmark Suites Group Award
The SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suites are unique in the industry. This
is the first such benchmark suites to support many programming models.
The benchmark suites will be instrumental for hardware selection for
large data computation centers and for the development, test and
evaluation of vendors’ compiler infrastructures for years to come.
Since its launch, there have already been a large number of requests
for the benchmark suites from academic, research institutions and
other non-profit organizations. The use of the benchmark suites will
shape the direction of research and will solidify SPEC's role as a
leading benchmark organization and encourage future participation in
SPEC. The following individuals helped select, test, evaluate and
improve numerous benchmark candidates to make them suitable to be
integrated in the suites:
The SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark is the next generation of
virtualization benchmarking for measuring performance of a scaled-out
data center. The SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark is a multi-host
benchmark using simulated and real-life workloads to measure the
overall efficiency of virtualization solutions and their management
environments. The introduction of the SPECvirt® Datacenter 2021 benchmark provides an excellent new tool for industry
and research to analyze the performance of virtualized environments.
The following individuals helped select, test, evaluate and improve
numerous workload candidates, the benchmark harness and documentation
to deliver this versatile benchmark:
