SPEC
\spˈɛk], \spˈɛk], \s_p_ˈɛ_k]\
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.A non-profit corporation registered in California formed to"establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set ofrelevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newestgeneration of high-performance computers" (from SPEC'sbylaws). The founders believe that the user community willbenefit greatly from an objective series ofapplications-oriented tests, which can serve as commonreference points and be considered during the evaluationprocess.SPEC develops suites of benchmarks intended to measurecomputer performance. These are available to the public for afee covering development and administration costs.The current (14 Nov 94) SPEC benchmark suites are: CINT92(CPU intensive integer benchmarks); CFP92 (CPU intensivefloating-point benchmarks); SDM (UNIX Software DevelopmentWorkloads); SFS (System level file server (NFS) workload).Results (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable).SPEC also publishes a quarterly report of SPEC news andresults, The SPEC Newsletter. Some issues are here(http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html).There is a FAQ about SPEC here(http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/specfaq.html).
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A specification language. It expresses black box interfacespecifications for large distributed systems with real-timeconstraints. It incorporates conceptual models, inheritanceand the event model. It is a descendant of MSG.84.["An Introduction to the Specification Language Spec",V. Berzins et al, IEEE Software 7(2):74-84 (Mar 1990)].
By Denis Howe
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a colloquial abbrev. of speculation.
By Thomas Davidson
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(colloq.). Speculation, speculative enterprise, as it turned out a good s., did it on s.
By Sir Augustus Henry
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