John L. Henning
Abstract
On August 24, 2006, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) announced CPU2006 [2], which replaces CPU2000. The SPEC CPU benchmarks are widely used in both industry and academia [3].
- Program authors are listed in the descriptions below, which are adapted from longer versions posted at www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/. The SPEC project leaders are listed in credits.html at the same location.Google Scholar
- SPEC's press announcement may be found at www.spec.org/cpu2006/press/release.htmlGoogle Scholar
- SPEC's website has over 6000 published results for CPU2000, at www.spec.org/cpu2000/results. Google reports 270,000 hits for the phrase "SPEC CPU2000" as of September 2006.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- SPEC CPU2006 benchmark descriptions
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