SPEC is mourning the loss of Larry Gray, the long-time Treasurer of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) and technical contributor in many different benchmark areas, who passed away on January 30, 2011.

Larry was involved with SPEC from its inception and has worked on so many benchmarks that neither memory nor archives can serve to list them all. As SPEC's long serving treasurer, Larry helped guide us to our current financially solid position, with a fine professional staff amplifying the efforts of our volunteers, and with the ability safely to invest in strategic initiatives to advance SPEC's mission.

"Larry was truly a visionary, though he never would have used such a grandiose word for himself. He just saw it as practical necessity that SPEC would meet industry needs, and Larry was instrumental in bringing together diverse groups to work for our common mission." says Walter Bays, SPEC President.

Larry was an integral part of the development of the SPECpower benchmark. Of all his SPEC projects, Larry was particularly proud of his work on this committee and of the continued strides the committee has made as Larry moved on to other challenges.