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.

Luis Mendoza

Nishant Rawtani