About
The SPEC Research Group (RG) is a 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
New SPEC RG Newsletter Issue Available
This regular publication will provide you with information on latest developments, news and announcements relevant to the benchmarking and quantitative system evaluation communities.
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SPEC RG paper wins ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2025
The paper "Early Detection of Performance Regressions by Bridging Local Performance Data and Architectural Models" wins the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2025.
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"Systems Benchmarking - For Scientists and Engineers", 2nd Edition
The second edition of a textbook on the topic of systems benchmarking written by SPEC RG Members was published by Springer.
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Registration open for ICPE 2025
ICPE 2025 will take place from May 5 to May 9, 2025, hosted by York University in Toronto, Canada.
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