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The SPEC Research Group (RG) is a 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.
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Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2025
SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 2023 and September 2025.
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Research Group Steering Committee Elections
The latest annual elections to the SPEC RG Steering Committee were performed in June 2025. Subject to the elections were the Class B seats and the Officer positions.
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Wrapping Up ICPE 2025: A Milestone Event in Performance Engineering
We are delighted to share highlights from the recently concluded 16th annual ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2025, held May 5-9 in Toronto, Canada.
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New SPEC RG Newsletter Issue Available
This regular publication will provide you with information on latest developments, news and announcements relevant to the benchmarking and quantitative system evaluation communities.
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