Cor-Paul Bezemer has contributed a tremendous amount of time and effort to the SPEC Research Group (RG) in his positions of Secretary, DevOps Vice Chair, Co-Program Chair of ICPE 2021, Workshop and Financial Chair of ICPE 2020, and Program Committee member of ICPE since 2018. Cor-Paul is one of the main drivers of the ICPE 2021 event and was one of the local organizers of ICPE 2020. He has contributed to the success of SPEC’s RG DevOps group with a contribution of significant research.
Jonathan Konieczy has consistently provided the Graphics Workstation Performance Group (GWPG) with strong and valuable technical expertise in graphics. In 2021, with SPECviewperf 2020 v2 and v3, he resolved issues with the Solidworks viewset to allow a quick turnaround and customer update. A 20+ year veteran of the graphics industry, Jonathan always sparks important discussions about key considerations and goes the extra mile to make sure GWPG is making smart choices about the benchmarks it develops.
In mid-June, the Chinese government communicated that they were developing a regulatory server energy efficiency benchmark named BenchSEE. In order to drive commonality across the different energy efficiency metrics for government usage, the industry needed a quick and detailed review of the benchmark to provide feedback within a very tight deadline, and asked SPEC if it could help. Nishant Rawtani and Luis Mendoza jumped at the challenge and set up eight platforms across three different CPU architectures in order to gain insights into the BenchSEE 1.
When it comes to developing application-specific benchmarks, maintaining a strong relationship with the vendor is extremely beneficial because the vendor can provide vital subject-matter expertise, development support and troubleshooting. In working on Solidworks benchmarks, Allen Jensen has established and maintained a collaborative synergy with Dassault Systèmes that has been key to a faster pace of development and a higher quality benchmark. Allen ensures that the benchmark is performing correctly and delivering an accurate measurement without taking any artificial shortcuts.
The SPEChpc 2021 Benchmark Suites are unique in the industry. This is the first such benchmark suites to support many programming models. The benchmark suites will be instrumental for hardware selection for large data computation centers and for the development, test and evaluation of vendors’ compiler infrastructures for years to come. Since its launch, there have already been a large number of requests for the benchmark suites from academic, research institutions and other non-profit organizations.
The SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark is the next generation of virtualization benchmarking for measuring performance of a scaled-out data center. The SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark is a multi-host benchmark using simulated and real-life workloads to measure the overall efficiency of virtualization solutions and their management environments. The introduction of the SPECvirt® Datacenter 2021 benchmark provides an excellent new tool for industry and research to analyze the performance of virtualized environments.