Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp!deimos!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!george_jones From: george_jones@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: SPEC benchmarks Message-ID: <77476@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 22 Feb 90 17:37:47 GMT Sender: usenet_news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: George M. Jones Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 17 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.