spec
(1) See specs and specification.
(2) (SPEC) (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, Warrenton, VA, www.specbench.org) An organization founded in 1988 to establish standard benchmarks for computers. Its first benchmark was a single CPU rating known as the "SPECmark," in which one SPECmark was equivalent in performance to a VAX 11/780. Although SPEC benchmarks continue to rate CPUs, SPEC has a variety of benchmarks to measure graphics subsystems, Java, Web servers, mail servers, application servers and file servers. Following are the SPEC names for current and retired CPU benchmarks. See benchmark.
SPEC CPU Benchmark for
Current Integer Floating Point
SPEC CPU2006 CINT2006 CFP2006
Retired
SPEC CPU2000 CINT2000 CFP2000
SPEC CPU95 SPECint95 SPECfp95
| 1. | (benchmark, body) | SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
A non-profit corporation registered in California formed to
"establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of
relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest
generation of high-performance computers" (from SPEC's
bylaws). The founders believe that the user community will
benefit greatly from an objective series of
applications-oriented tests, which can serve as common
reference points and be considered during the evaluation
process.
SPEC develops suites of benchmarks intended to measure
computer performance. These are available to the public for a
fee covering development and administration costs.
The current (14 Nov 94) SPEC benchmark suites are: CINT92
(CPU intensive integer benchmarks); CFP92 (CPU intensive
floating-point benchmarks); SDM (UNIX Software Development
Workloads); SFS (System level file server (NFS) workload).
Results.
SPEC also publishes a quarterly report of SPEC news and
results, The SPEC Newsletter. Some issues are here.
There is a FAQ about SPEC here. | |
| 2. | | Spec - A specification language. It expresses black box interface
specifications for large distributed systems with real-time
constraints. It incorporates conceptual models, inheritance
and the event model. It is a descendant of MSG.84.
["An Introduction to the Specification Language Spec",
V. Berzins et al, IEEE Software 7(2):74-84 (Mar 1990)]. | |
| 3. | | spec - specification | |