Technical Outreach Leadership: Sneha Gohad, Intel
Sneha Gohad was instrumental in bringing a proprietary ISV-based workload into the SPECworkstation 4.0 benchmark, adding significant value for the benchmark and users. This important architecture, engineering and construction, workload will appeal to a large base of workstation users, further enhancing the benchmark’s prestige. Sneha’s efforts were key in working with the ISV for licensing and approval, coding the workload into the benchmark, testing and characterization of the release, and collaborating to remove process affinity to make the performance measurements more realistic for hybrid workstation workloads.
Technical Contribution: Roshan Mangal, AMD
SPECjbb2015 is one of the most published Java benchmarks and is very complex with a large code base and many deployment categories. Customers noticed a significant number of run-time crashes with v1.03, which the Java committee attributed to a specific phase during the benchmark execution. Roshan Mangal undertook the task of debugging the root cause, spending weeks identifying and replicating the problem. He then proposed and tested a performance-neutral solution, which became the primary update in v1.
Technical Leadership: Chandra Sakthivel, Intel
As SPECwpc Chair since 2023, Chandra Sakthivel successfully guided the seven-year SPECworkstation 4.0 benchmark effort to its official release in December 2024. Despite the longest development cycle in GWPG history, he maintained member motivation and secured additional expertise from Intel to complete the benchmark. During this time, Chandra coordinated seven alpha, seven beta and four release candidates, navigating a complex development process with numerous release issues and blockers. He also proposed adding the AI/ML vertical, significantly benefiting data scientists and software developers.
Technical Leadership: Przemyslaw Tyrkiel, Intel
As a technical lead for the SPEC Cloud v1 project, Przemyslaw Tyrkiel has helped guide the Cloud Committee through complex technical challenges, ensuring the successful execution of project goals. He designed the architecture for the Ansible test harness using an innovative approach which resulted in a benchmark implementation that is both easy to set up and user-friendly, significantly enhancing the efficiency of the testing process. Presemslaw also made substantial contributions to benchmark components other companies added.