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2024-02-22 SPEC has released a new version of the PTDaemon® tool the software that allows power measurement devices to be incorporated into performance evaluation software. PTDaemon greatly simplifies power and temperature benchmarking with SPEC benchmarks, eliminating the need to understand and adapt to different power analyzer interface protocols and behaviors.
2024-02-20 Registration is now open for the Fifteenth ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), taking place May 7-11, 2024, in London.
Expected GenAI developments in the year ahead relating to graphics performance.
The development of the SPECaccel 2023 benchmark suite is a collaboration by representatives from industry vendors, high performance computing centers and academic institutions to provide a baseline to compare accelerator performance. While vendor supplied languages may offer optimal performance for a particular accelerator, the use of directives showcases performance portability across many accelerators.
SPEC and EEMBC combining forces will significantly further both organizations’ missions to provide global, independent and high-quality benchmarks, and provide one source for benchmarks which cover the smallest microcontroller to the largest supercomputers.
2023-11-09 SPEC announced the availability of the SPECaccel® 2023 benchmark suite, a major update to the SPEC ACCEL® v1.4 benchmark, that measures the performance of key system components using computationally intensive parallel applications running under the OpenACC and OpenMP target offloading APIs.