SPEC Newsletter Article Archives

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• Open Forum
• President's Letters

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SPEC News

Fourth Quarter '96

• SPEC Completes First Year Online

Third Quarter '96

• Not available yet...

Second Quarter '96

• What's new with the High-Performance Group?
• Fading Into The Sunset: SPEC Obsoletes SPEC CPU92

First Quarter '96

• SPEC Announces Internet Information Access
• SPEC CPU Benchmarks: Past, Present, and Future

December '95

• 1996 -- A Very SPECial New Year
• HPG Develops SPEChpc96
• Example of Benchmark Obsolescence

September '95

• SPEC Discusses the History & Reasoning Behind SPEC95
• SPEC Describes SPEC95 Products And Benchmarks
• SPEC95 Questions And Answers
• A Look at SPEC95: An Introduction to 099.go

June '95

• What Is New With SFS? SFS Addresses Meta Data Access Time
• How SPEC's Open System Group Selects New Benchmarks

March '95

• High Performance Steering Committee: Annual Report
• Lessons Learned From 072.sc

December '94

• Benefits of SPEC Membership
• SPEC Eliminates Libcurses.a From 072.sc
• Non-baseline Results Eliminated From SPEC SFS Benchmark

Open Forum

The purpose of "Open Forum" is to provide a forum for SPEC members and newsletter subscribers to discuss issues, controversial or otherwise, related to SPEC's purpose of providing performance evaluation benchmarks and information.

Articles in the "Open Forum" are the opinions of the authors and do not reflect the official position of SPEC, its board of directors, committees, or member companies.

June '95

• Flight Recorders, Timing Chains, and Directions For SPEC System Benchmarks
• Profile Of A SPEC95 Benchmark Candidate

December '94

• Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks

Letters From The President

For each issue SPEC's president, Kaivalya Dixit, writes a quick note summarizing the recent accomplishments, and championing the current goals.

• Q2'96: Weaving SPECweb...
• Q1'96: Hard Work
• Dec'95: Thank You!
• Sep'95: SPEC95 Beats Windows95 By Four Days
• Jun'95: Reality Bytes -- SPEC95 is here
• Mar'95: 10, 9, 8, ..., 3, 2, 1 -- Blast Off SPEC95
• Dec'94: Crystal Ball