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2024-02-20 Registration is now open for the Fifteenth ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), taking place May 7-11, 2024, in London.
Expected GenAI developments in the year ahead relating to graphics performance.
The development of the SPECaccel 2023 benchmark suite is a collaboration by representatives from industry vendors, high performance computing centers and academic institutions to provide a baseline to compare accelerator performance. While vendor supplied languages may offer optimal performance for a particular accelerator, the use of directives showcases performance portability across many accelerators.
SPEC and EEMBC combining forces will significantly further both organizations’ missions to provide global, independent and high-quality benchmarks, and provide one source for benchmarks which cover the smallest microcontroller to the largest supercomputers.
2023-11-09 SPEC announced the availability of the SPECaccel® 2023 benchmark suite, a major update to the SPEC ACCEL® v1.4 benchmark, that measures the performance of key system components using computationally intensive parallel applications running under the OpenACC and OpenMP target offloading APIs.
2023-10-30 SPEC announced that EEMBC®, the 25-year-old Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, has become SPEC’s new Embedded Group (SPEC EG). EEMBC is known for developing industry-standard benchmarks for measuring the performance and energy efficiency of embedded processor hardware and software used in autonomous driving, mobile imaging, the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile devices, and more. The addition of EEMBC broadens SPEC’s portfolio with more than 15 highly regarded benchmarks for embedded computers and enables both organizations to share workloads and infrastructure costs to allow for more investment in research and development.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) provides updates on their activities around the Siggraph time frame, focusing on three primary committees: SPECapc, SPECgpc, and SPECwpc.