GUI sample from SPECwpc V1 (results not for attribution)
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), founded in 1988 by a small number of workstation vendors who realized that the marketplace was in desperate need of realistic, standardized performance tests, has released the “first comprehensive, system-level benchmark based on professional workstation applications.”
The benchmark was developed by the SPEC workstation performance characterization (SPECwpc) project group, comprising leading vendors such as AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, NEC and NVIDIA.
More than 30 workloads are included in SPECwpc V1.0 to test CPU, graphics, I/O and memory bandwidth. The tests are divided into application categories including:
Media and Entertainment
- Blender
- HandBrake
- LuxRender
- IOMeter (m+e trace)
- Autodesk Maya viewset (from SPECviewperf benchmark)
Product Development
- Rodinia (pre-euler 3D)
- CalculiX
- OpenFOAM
- IOMeter (product dev trace)
- Catia viewset (from SPECviewperf benchmark)
- Siemens NX viewset (from SPECviewperf benchmark)
- SolidWorks viewset (from SPECviewperf benchmark)
- Autodesk Showcase viewset (from SPECviewperf benchmark)
Life Sciences
- Lammps
- NAMD
- Rodinia (heartwall, lavamd, hotspot,srad)
- Medical viewset (from SPECviewperf benchmark)
- IOMeter (life sci trace)
Financial Services
- Monte Carlo
- Black Scholes
- Binomial
Energy
- FFTW
- Convolution
- Energy viewset (from SPECviewperf benchmark)
- srmp
- Kirchhoff Migration
- Poisson
- IOMeter (energy trace)
General Operations
- 7zip
- Python
- Octave
- MozillaVS
- IOMeter (gen ops trace)
Individual scores are generated for each test and a composite score for each category is generated based on a reference machine, yielding a “bigger is better” result. The reference machine has the following configuration: x3430 processor, 8GB (4x2GB) memory, V4800 graphics and SATA 7.2k rpm hard-disk drive.
SPECwpc V1.0 is available immediately under a two-tiered pricing structure: free for non-commercial users and $5,000 for commercial entities. Commercial entities are defined as organizations using the benchmark for the purpose of marketing, developing, testing, consulting for and/or selling computers, computer services, graphics devices, drivers or other systems in the computer marketplace.
(Visit http://www.spec.org/ for more details and downloads)
