Technical Leadership: Hansfried Block, Supporting Contributor
Hansfried Block has been a key contributor to the SPECpower and the ISG Server Efficiency Committees since their inception. Despite retiring in 2016, Hansfried continues to contribute to the committees, focusing primarily on the development of the SERT suite and the PTDaemon interface. He contributed to the development of the SERT suite as a release manager and developer, then in 2022 shifted his focus to the next SPECpower benchmark. Still, he diligently trained the new SERT suite release manager and helped guide the SERT 2.
Executive Leadership: David Schmidt, Red Hat
Since joining the Board, David Schmidt has stepped up to serve in many key roles, including Inspector of Elections and Awards Chair. In late 2022, when the SPEC and EEMBC Boards explored EEMBC joining SPEC, David managed to keep other Board projects running on life support while quickly and enthusiastically pivoting to Chair of the EEMBC Merger Committee. The SPEC and EEMBC Boards deeply appreciated David’s organizational skill and friendly, agreeable leadership, and he successfully led numerous meetings, organized and tracked countless tasks, and assisted in setting up the SPEC member-wide meeting and vote.
Dedicated Service: Aaron Cragin, Microsoft
A SPEC board member, Aaron Cragin was involved in many initiatives in 2023, including his ongoing role of assistant treasurer. In this role, Aaron took on the responsibility to help evaluate the financial state of EEMBC during the discovery phase of the recent merger activity between SPEC and EEMBC. He worked tirelessly with EEMBC board representatives and their accountant to ensure all the financial documentation was in order, and he created a spreadsheet overview that was very helpful in determining the initial dues of the new Embedded Group.