Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

American non-profit corporation

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Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Formation	1988
Type	Non-profit corporation
Headquarters	Gainesville, Virginia
Membership	Over 120 Hardware/Software Vendors, Universities, Research Centers
Website	www.spec.org

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit consortium that establishes and maintains standardized benchmarks and performance evaluation tools for new generations of computing systems. SPEC was founded in 1988 and its membership comprises over 120 computer hardware and software vendors, educational institutions, research organizations, and government agencies internationally.

SPEC benchmarks and tools are widely used to evaluate the performance of computer systems; the test results are published on the SPEC website.

External links

Official website
Official List of SPEC Benchmarks

Processing benchmarks

Concepts

Free software
Proprietary software
Performance per watt
Data center infrastructure efficiency
Giga-updates per second (memory)
CPU power dissipation

Organizations

BAPCo consortium
EEMBC
Futuremark
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)

Processor

Floating-point unit (FLOPS)	SPECfp LINPACK LAPACK Prime95 Super PI SuperPrime Whetstone IBM iSeries benchmarks (Computational Intensive Workload)
Integer (ALU)	Dhrystone Fhourstones SPECint CoreMark
Digital signal processor (DSP)	BTDi
Graphics processing unit (GPU)	BRL-CAD
Parallel computing	DEISA Benchmark Suite Livermore loops NAS Parallel Benchmarks HPC Challenge Benchmark Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC)

Peripherals

Network	BreakingPoint Systems SUPS
Filesystems and storage	Bonnie++ HD Tach IOzone Diskspd
Computer memory	BSS Random Access benchmark HPC Challenge Random Memory Access
Input/output	Iometer Ioblazer IBM iSeries benchmarks (Commercial Processing Workload)

Computer system (entire)

Hierarchical INTegration (HINT)
NBench (CPU, memory)

Energy consumption

Software

JavaScript engine	Browser speed test
Cryptography	Cycles per byte
Multiuser system	SDET AIM Multiuser Benchmark
Virtual machine	VMmark SPECvirt
Physics engine	Physics Abstraction Layer API Bench
Recursion performance	Tak (function)
Database transactions	TATP Benchmark Transaction Processing over XML (TPoX) YCSB (NoSQL)
Web server benchmarking	Apache JMeter Curl-loader httperf OpenSTA TPC-W Tsung
X Window System	Xmark93