
968 APPENDIX Parallel Benchmark Suites
from the Netlib repository at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, as described in
Table
A.
1.
A.6 OTHER ONGOING EFFORTS
SPEC/HPCG: The developers of the widely used SPEC (Standard Performance Eval-
uation Corporation) suite for uniprocessor benchmarking (SPEC 1995) have
teamed up with the developers of the Perfect (PERFormance Evaluation for Cost-
effective Transformations) Club benchmarks for traditional vector supercomputers
(Berry et al. 1989) to form the SPEC/HPG (High Performance Group) to develop a
suite of benchmarks (Eigenmann and Hassanzadeh 1996) measuring the perfor-
mance of systems that "push th ...