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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: PD suite of benchmarks
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Date: 5 Dec 90 02:15:12 GMT
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Reply-To: walter@apd.ingr.com (Walter Bays) (when our #$! mailer works)
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>>Considering the high price of the SPEC suite, I was wondering if
>>anybody would be willing to get together some sort of PD suite of benchmarks.

khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) writes:
>Most of the SPEC codes are available from other sources. The tape cost
>(which is relatively nominal) funds the process (which includes
>portation of the codes to a variety of platforms, correctness testing
>etc.). 

The tape and newsletter revenues partially fund the adminstrative
expenses.  Analysis, porting, and testing costs are much higher, and
are funded by the SPEC member companies through contributed time by
engineers.  SPEC Steering Committee members (like Sun) bear even more
of the costs.

In article <1646@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan) writes:
>Since all of the programs in the SPEC suite are supposed to be freely
>distributable (like gcc and LaTeX), all that should be necessary is to
>get a complete list of the programs, get copies of the software from
>where ever, and come up with a suitably representative set of input data
>for each program...

Yes, it's likely you could get free versions of most of them, but...

>On the other hand, who wants to volunteer for all this fun work?

...don't expect to be able to do the work for the price of a tape.

(I am speaking neither for Intergraph nor for SPEC.)
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