Wednesday, 22 May 2013

About SPEC Research Group

The SPEC Research Group (RG) is a new group within the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) established to serve as a platform for collaborative research efforts in the area of quantitative system evaluation and analysis, fostering the interaction between industry and academia in the field.

The scope of the group includes computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general, considering both classical performance metrics such as response time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other non-functional system properties included under the term dependability, e.g., availability, reliability, and security.

The conducted research efforts span the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing, profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency evaluation of computing systems.

Latest News

Several SPEC RG Officers Recognized by SPEC President

RG Officers Alexandru Iosup, Qais Noorshams, Aleksandar Milenkoski were recognized by the SPEC President and the SPEC RG Chair for their outstanding service to SPEC in 2012.

(10.05.2013) [more] 		SPEC RG Face-to-Face Meeting 2013

The third SPEC RG Face-to-Face Meeting took place on April 24-25, 2013 at the ICPE 2013 Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.

(08.05.2013) [more]
Over 160 Attendees at ICPE 2013

Participants from industry and academia coming from 25 different countries attended ICPE 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.

(07.05.2013) [more] 		ICPE 2013 Best Industry Paper Award

Klaus Lange (HP) and Meikel Poess (Oracle) recognized as co-authors of the two best industry track papers at ICPE 2013.

(07.05.2013) [more]