george_jones@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (02/23/90)
I stopped by the Solbourne exhibit at UniForum, giving them my name and address in the process. Of couse things (that I requeste) showed up in my mailbox. But also inclosed was information on what looks like a multi-vendor attempt at generating standardized benchmarks for high performance (whatever that means this week) systems. The name of the benchmark quite is SPEC. They do things like run GCC on a set of files and run various standardized engineering applications to try to generate timings that will provide a basis for meaningful comparisons. Has anybody else heard of this ? Is it anything more than a Solbourne marketing tool ? Are their tests meaningful ? ---George Jones -- OSU Computer & Inf. Science 2036 Neil Ave.,Columbus,Ohio 43210. 614-292-7325 george@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!george EMACS: Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping.
george@jones.cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) (02/23/90)
Thanks to everyone who replied. I got the the inforamtion that I was looking for and then some. Looks like I will have to re-subscribe to comp.arch (more volume to digest :-( ) ---George Jones -=- OSU Computer & Inf. Science 2036 Neil Ave.,Columbus,Ohio 43210. 614-292-7325 george@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!george "Doubleback alley takes me back, and in my mind I see, Happy smiling faces, if if flog my memory" --- Dirk McQuigley (The Ruttles)
preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) (02/28/90)
SPEC (System Performance Evaluation Consortium, I think), is a multivendor effort to produce benchmarks that are well-defined and meaningful (to the extent that any benchmarks other than your own applications can ever be useful). They publish both results on individual components of the benchmark set and a single figure (the SPECmark) combining the results. All caveats regarding the usefulness of any single measure of performance need to be applied. -- scott preece motorola/mcd urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 uucp: uunet!uiucuxc!udc!preece, arpa: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com