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specmark

 

  1  definition  found 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  SPECmark 
 
    The  average  of  a  set  of  {floating-point}  and 
  integer  {SPEC}  {benchmark}  results. 
 
  While  the  old  average  {SPECmark89}  has  been  popular  with  the 
  industry  and  the  press,  {SPEC}  has  intentionally  *not*  defined 
  an  average  "SPECmark92"  over  all  {CPU}  {benchmark}s  of  the 
  1992  suites  ({CINT92}  and  {CFP92}),  for  the  following  reasons: 
  With  6  integer  ({CINT92})  and  14  {floating-point}  ({CFP92}) 
  benchmarks,  the  average  would  be  biased  too  much  towards 
  floating-point.  Customers'  workloads  are  different,  some 
  integer-only,  some  floating-point  intensive,  some  mixed. 
  Current  processors  have  developed  their  strengths  in  a  more 
  diverse  way  (some  more  emphasizing  integer  performance,  some 
  more  floating-point  performance)  than  in  1989. 
 
  Some  SPECmark  results  are  available  {here 
  (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable)}. 
 
  See  also  {SPECint92},  {SPECfp92},  {SPECrate_int92}, 
  {SPECrate_fp92}. 
 
  (1994-11-15)