SPEC launches rewards program for contributions to next CPU benchmark

GAINESVILLE, Va., Feb. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) is offering rewards of up to $9,000 and a free benchmark license for application code and datasets accepted under its benchmark search program. Applications that make it through the entire search program will be incorporated into the next major version of the SPEC CPU suite.
SPEC CPU benchmarks provide performance metrics for comparing systems on a known compute-intensive workload, with emphasis on the system’s processor(s), memory hierarchy, and compiler(s). SPEC is expecting the next CPU benchmark suite to continue this trend. A good benchmark candidate would embody the following characteristics:Based on a representative application used in the real world.Compute bound, or can have its compute bound portion excerpted.Portable or can be ported to multiple hardware architectures and operating systems with reasonable effort.Representative of the state of the art for the given field.Capable of solving problems of varying sizes.Follow a reasonably consistent code path.Real, parallelized applications
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