What Are the SPEC Products and Services?

SPEC’s main product is the benchmark suites. The code in the suites are developed by SPEC from code donated by various sources. SPEC works on portability and creates tools and meaningful workloads for the codes chosen as benchmarks. Therefore, the SPEC benchmarks are not the same as public domain programs that might exist under a similar name or the same name, and their execution times will, in general, be different.

The SPEC benchmark sources are generally available; though, they are licensed software products. Each SPEC group is charging separately for its benchmark suites. The income from the benchmark source sales is intended to support the administrative costs of the corporation. SPEC distributes its benchmarks as downloads via Cleverbridge.