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How do you determine the performance of your computing system’s performance? Benchmarks are a good way of providing you with hard, unbiased data. But, that’s not entirely true. That’s because not all benchmarks are created the same.
2024-05-02 The SPECjbb® 2015 benchmark has been updated to version 1.04. This update fixes crashes which were observed during the testing with the very large core count systems. Licensees of versions 1.00, 1.01, 1.02 and 1.03 are entitled to a complimentary V1.04 upgrade. SPEC will be retiring V1.03 in August 2024, after which time all result submissions must be made with V1.04.
The SPEChpc 2021 benchmark suites, a standard High-Performance Computing (HPC) test tool, proves valuable in various situations. In this blog, Nick Hagerty, HPC engineer from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Dr. Junjie Li, Research Associate from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), two of the largest HPC centers in the U.S., share their experiences with the SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suites in their research and daily data center operations.
A new version of the PTDaemon interface is now available. It includes multi-channel support for the ZES LMG 450/500/600 families of power analyzers and support for TFA Dostmann and Cleware USB temperature sensors on Linux-based systems. It also includes bug fixes and enhancements, enabling more organizations to use SPEC benchmarks and other tools for more use cases related to increasing energy efficiency, achieving a low carbon footprint, and implementing new cooling technologies.
2024-03-06 Shreshth Tuli from the Imperial College London has been recognized as the winner of the 2023 Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award for his work, “AI and Co-Simulation Driven Resource Management in Fog Computing Environments” The award will be presented at the 15th Annual ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) conference.
2024-03-04 ICPE 2024 - Call for Participation (Early Registration until March 15, 2024): Registration is open for the full conference (3-day conference, workshops, tutorials) or Workshops and Tutorials only. Registration deadlines are Early: March 15, 2024, Regular: April 12, 2024 and Late/Onsite: May 11, 2024. 15th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Supported by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG.
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2024-02-22 SPEC has released a new version of the PTDaemon® tool the software that allows power measurement devices to be incorporated into performance evaluation software. PTDaemon greatly simplifies power and temperature benchmarking with SPEC benchmarks, eliminating the need to understand and adapt to different power analyzer interface protocols and behaviors.