Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops benchmark suites and also reviews and publishes submitted results from our member organizations and other benchmark licensees.


http://www.spec.org/

測試電腦效能的軟體很多，但分析出來的數據結果，通常必須作比較才有意義，而比較需要可以當基準的標竿，才能知道受測的機器表現如何，非營利組織SPEC就是為硬體廠商、學術研究機構提供基準效能測試的平台與數據資料。