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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  spec 
  n  :  a  detailed  description  of  design  criteria  for  a  piece  of 
  work  [syn:  {specification}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  SPEC 
 
    Standard  Performance  Evaluation  Corporation. 
 
  A  non-profit  corporation  registered  in  California  formed  to 
  "establish,  maintain  and  endorse  a  standardized  set  of 
  relevant  {benchmarks}  that  can  be  applied  to  the  newest 
  generation  of  high-performance  computers"  (from  SPEC's 
  bylaws).  The  founders  believe  that  the  user  community  will 
  benefit  greatly  from  an  objective  series  of 
  applications-oriented  tests,  which  can  serve  as  common 
  reference  points  and  be  considered  during  the  evaluation 
  process. 
 
  SPEC  develops  suites  of  {benchmark}s  intended  to  measure 
  computer  performance.  These  are  available  to  the  public  for  a 
  fee  covering  development  and  administration  costs. 
 
  The  current  (14  Nov  94)  SPEC  benchmark  suites  are:  {CINT92} 
  (CPU  intensive  integer  benchmarks);  {CFP92}  (CPU  intensive 
  floating-point  benchmarks);  SDM  (UNIX  Software  Development 
  Workloads);  SFS  (System  level  file  server  (NFS)  workload). 
 
  {Results  (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable)} 
 
  SPEC  also  publishes  a  quarterly  report  of  SPEC  news  and 
  results,  The  SPEC  Newsletter.  Some  issues  are  {here 
  (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html)}. 
 
  There  is  a  {FAQ}  about  SPEC  {here 
  (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/specfaq.html)} 
 
  (1994-11-14) 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  spec 
 
  {specification} 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Spec 
 
  A  specification  language.  It  expresses  {black  box}  interface 
  specifications  for  large  distributed  systems  with  {real-time} 
  constraints.  It  incorporates  conceptual  models,  {inheritance} 
  and  the  event  model.  It  is  a  descendant  of  {MSG.84}. 
 
  ["An  Introduction  to  the  Specification  Language  Spec", 
  V.  Berzins  et  al  IEEE  Software  7(2):74-84  (Mar  1990)]. 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  SPEC 
  System  Performance  Evaluation  Corporation  (org.,  RISC)




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