What is New on SPEC's WWW Server

During 1996

Still To Do...

You might want to check the list of enhancements to see if what you are looking for is still on the ToDo list...

Done...

December 18th, 1996

Added 32 new results to the Fourth Quarter '96 CPU95 results.

December 13th, 1996

Fixed problem with the OSG results engine that was causing failures in reaching the benchmark specific configurations. Sorry.

December 11th, 1996

We have updated the OSG results engine. The new engine is a lot more configurable, has more help features, and runs at least one order of magnitude faster than the old one.
A minor change that should not affect people unless they have links directly to the SPECweb96 results: we have changed the name of the results files for SPECweb96 -- from "web-..." to "web96-..." to match the proper name for the benchmark.

December 5th, 1996

Added some more background material to the SPECweb96 benchmark information. Includes a white paper and a description of the benchmark workload.
Added info about current benchmark developent efforts. Check out what is coming in the next web server benchmark, a whole new set of CPU benchmarks, amd a new way to measure a system's multitasking performance.

December 4th, 1996

The following updates have been late in being processed. We apologize for any inconveniences.
Added another 42 more results to the Fourth Quarter '96 CPU95 results.
Added 4 more new results to the Fourth Quarter '96 SPECweb96 results.

November 12th, 1996

Added a few more new results to the Fourth Quarter '96 CPU95 results.

October 1st, 1996

Added 66 new approved results to start the Fourth Quarter '96 CPU95 results.
Added the first new result to the Fourth Quarter '96 SPECweb96 results.
Added the last result to the Third Quarter '96 LADDIS results.

September 25th, 1996

Added new approved results to the CPU95 results.

September 23rd, 1996

Added 2 new approved results to the SPECweb96 result.
And 1 new approved result to the SFS results. JAF

September 6th, 1996

Added 3 new submissions to the CPU95 results.

August 30th, 1996

Re-corrected a problem with the processor description in some of the CPU95 results. Should have it right this time... sorry.

August 28th, 1996

One more result for the SFS results.
Fixed an error in the listing of the number of processors in some CPU95 results.
Brought the most recent SPEC Newsletter articles into the articles archive.

August 26th, 1996

Trying to catch up with a backlog of new results...

Another SPECweb96 result.
22 more (overdue) results to the CPU95 results.
And 10 more (long overdue) results to the SFS results.

August 9th, 1996

Added 25 more results for the CPU95 results.

August 6th, 1996

Added two new results to the SPECweb96 results

July 24th, 1996

Added two new results to the SFS results.
Added 46 new results to the CPU95 results.

July 22nd, 1996

SPEC announces the SPECweb96 benchmark. Added all of the SPECweb96 material (info, results, rules, etc.).

July 9th, 1996

Added a few more to the CPU95 results.

June 28th, 1996

Added a backlog of 5 more LADDIS results. This brings the total number of SFS results to near 75.

June 25th, 1996

Added another 96 results to the CPU95 results. We now have over 550 CPU95 results.

June 11th, 1996

More results in CPU95 results.

May 28th, 1996

Added a new section to the CPU95 information for descriptions of compiler options. Now it does not take a PhD in CS to be able to understand what was used to optimize a vendor's result...
Added another 30+ new results to the CPU95 results.

May 14th, 1996

Added almost 30 new results to the CPU95 results.

April 30th, 1996

Added 17 new results to the CPU95 results. We now have more than 400 CPU95 results! Our total result count is over 500, with representation from over 150 different systems.

April 25th, 1996

Added 24 more new results to the LADDIS results. There are now almost 70 results for this system level benchmark.

April 18th, 1996

Added another 39 results to the latest CPU95 results.
Minor updates to the SPEC FAQ.

March 28th, 1996

Finally implemented a new textual search engine. You can now search the entire server for any particular text string or pattern. Find out what here is "galactic" or "stable".

March 26th, 1996

Added to the latest LADDIS results.
Updated index for all Q1-96 SPEC Newsletter Results
Fixed up minor formatting issues in the SPEC Result Search Engine.

March 21st, 1996

Added newest batch of results to the current CPU95 results. Including the much asked for Sun Ultra results.

March 7th, 1996

Updated current CPU95 results.

March 5th, 1996

Added the most recent to the latest LADDIS results.

February 27th, 1996

Added many new results to the latest CPU95 results.

February 15th, 1996

Finally got the electronic versions of the December '95 LADDIS results.

January 12th, 1996

Cleaned up a number of the indices underneath the quick results index page.
Fixed another bug in results search engine this one caused no records to be displayed if only 1 matched the criteria. Off by one again...
Integrated links to SPEC Newsletter articles into appropriate pages. Also created list of article by benchmarks: CPU95, CPU92, and LADDIS.

January 11th, 1996

Fixed a bug in the results search engine that was causing incorrect pattern matches (e.g. if looking for systems where number of cpus matches 1, you'd also get a listing for a 12 processor system). Numbers are now matched numerically, not as patterns.
Added a form of our FAQ Sheet.
Added a small list of other performance WWW sites.

January 10th, 1996

Brought the SDM results online.
Finished with the old SPEC Newsletter articles archive.

January 9th, 1996

Brought the SPEC Newsletter on-line.

January 8th, 1996

Fixed many small issues in the Results Search Engine.
Added most of the results to the LADDIS Results Page.
Cleaned up a number of formatting issues.

January 6th, 1996

Added dedicated section for SPEC Newsletter results
Fixed the workings of the LADDIS results search
Reformed the home page and added and index for results by type
Modified the wording on home page. Tried to make it shorter with more pointers.

January 4th, 1996

Updated SPEC's general information.
Added a hierarchial table of contents. But still kept the permuted index.
Started adding navigational aids (small menubars) to some pages.
Enabled the LADDIS Result Search.

January 2nd, 1996

Enabled The High-Performance Group (the supercomputer benchmark group).

January 1st, 1996

SPEC goes OnLine!

With material on SPEC.
With material on our sub-groups.

Open Systems Group
The SPECmark and LADDIS people.
High Performance Group
Supercomputing benchmarks. [Coming online soon.]

December 6th, 1995

WWW Server started.

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