SPEC News
Below, ordered by time with the most recent items first, are listings of all of SPEC’s announcements through the years covering all our products and services and their updates.
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SPEC 2022 Achievement Awards
2022-04-11 SPEC has announced the winners of the 2022 SPEC Achievement Awards.
SPECapc for 3ds Max 2020 Benchmark Released
2022-03-22 The SPECapc® project group releases the new SPECapc® for 3ds Max 2020 benchmark for workstations running Autodesk 3ds Max 2020. The new benchmark replaces the SPECapc® for 3ds Max 2015 benchmark and includes 43 tests for comprehensive measurement of CPU and GPU performance with modeling, interactive graphics and visual effects.
André Bauer from the University of Würzburg Awarded 2021 Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award
2022-03-18 André Bauer from the University of Würzburg has been recognized as the winner of the 2021 Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award for his work, “Automated Hybrid Time Series Forecasting: Design, Benchmarking, and Use Cases.” The award will be presented at the 13th Annual ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) conference in April 2022.
Registration Open for ICPE 2022 in Virtual Format
2022-03-17 The 13th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) will be virtual this year and is open for registration. ICPE is also included for the first time in the CORE ranking with rank B. More details are here.
SPEC Forms New Machine Learning Committee
2022-03-10 SPEC has announced the formation of the SPEC Machine Learning Committee. The new committee will develop practical methodologies for benchmarking artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) performance in the context of real-world platforms and environments.
SPECviewperf® 2020 Benchmark V3.0 Linux Edition Released
2022-03-03 SPECgpc® released a Linux Edition of its SPECviewperf® 2020 v3.0 performance benchmark, the worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications. The SPECviewperf 2020 v3.0 Linux Edition benchmark enables hardware and software vendors and consumers to measure the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL application programming interface.