Characterizing computer performance with a single number
Communications of the ACM
Computer architecture: a quantitative approach
Computer architecture: a quantitative approach
Computer - Special issue on experimental research in computer architecture
Computer architecture (2nd ed.): a quantitative approach
Computer architecture (2nd ed.): a quantitative approach
Dhrystone: a synthetic systems programming benchmark
Communications of the ACM
Blocking Linear Algebra Codes for Memory Hierarchies
Proceedings of the Fourth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing
Software methods for improvement of cache performance on supercomputer applications
Software methods for improvement of cache performance on supercomputer applications
Micro-applications for communication data access patterns and MPI datatypes
EuroMPI'12 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface
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This paper characterizes problems with popular benchmarks used to measure system performance and describes the history, structure, mission, future, and workings of an evolving standard in characterizing systems performance. Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative (SPEC) represents an effort of major computer companies to create a yardstick to measure the performance of computer systems. This paper compares results of three architectures with traditional performance metrics and metrics developed by SPEC. It discusses strengths and weaknesses of SPEC and warns users about the dangers of single number performance characterization.