About SPEC Research Group

The SPEC Research Group (RG) is a new group within the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) established to serve as a platform for collaborative research efforts in the area of quantitative system evaluation and analysis, fostering the interaction between industry and academia in the field.

The scope of the group includes computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general, considering both classical performance metrics such as response time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other non-functional system properties included under the term dependability, e.g., availability, reliability, and security.

The conducted research efforts span the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing, profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency evaluation of computing systems.

Latest News

Winner of the SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2012

Shicong Meng from the Georgia Institute of Technology wins the 2012 SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award

(25.01.2013) [more]

ICAC 2013

The Call-for-Papers for the 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2013) technically co-sponsored by SPEC RG is online.

(10.01.2013) [more]

HotTopiCS 2013

The Call-for-Papers for the 2013 International Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Services (HotTopiCS) technically co-sponsored by SPEC RG is now online.

(10.01.2013) [more]

SPEC RG member receives Best Impact Award at SuperComputing'12

Alexandru Iosup (TU Delft) received the Best Impact Award of the MTAGS workshop at the prestigious ACM/IEEE conference on High Performance Computing and Networking (SC).

(14.12.2012) [more]

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