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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.

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Call for Participation: ICPE 2025 in Toronto, Canada

ICPE 2025 will take place from May 5 to May 9, 2025, hosted by York University in Toronto, Canada.
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Winner of SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024

Jingzhi Gong from Loughborough University (UK): "Pushing the Boundary: Specialising Deep Configuration Performance Learning"
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Wrapping Up ICPE 2024: A Milestone Event in Performance Engineering

We are delighted to share insights and highlights from the recently concluded ICPE 2024, held May 7-11th in London.
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Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024

SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 2022 and September 2024.
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