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SPEC Creates New Committee
for High Performance Evaluation

Fairfax, Va., March 4, 1994 -- The Standard Performance
Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has created a new steering committee
that will focus on standardized performance evaluation for
supercomputers, clustered and highly parallel systems.

Called the High Performance Steering Committee (HPSC), the
new group combines members of The Perfect Club, the
organization formerly responsible for high-performance
benchmarking, with members of SPEC. Founding members of
SPEC/HPSC include Convex Computers, Dartmouth College,
Digital Equipment Corp., Fujitsu America, Hewlett-Packard,
IBM, Intel Supercomputer Systems Division, Kuck &
Associates, NEC/HNSX Supercomputers, Silicon Graphics, the
University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, and the
University of Minnesota.

The new committee reorganizes SPEC into two independent
subgroups, each with its own officers. The original SPEC
membership now operates as the SPEC Open Systems Steering
Committee (SPEC/OSSC). It will continue its mission to
establish, maintain and endorse standardized benchmarks for
evaluating the performance of workstations, mid-range and
high-end computer systems. The SPEC/HPSC will concentrate
on benchmarks for measuring the performance of systems that
push the limits of computational technology. In conjunction
with the addition of the new committee, Dr. David Kuck of
Kuck & Associates, an influential member of the Perfect
Club, has accepted a seat on SPEC's board of directors.

The complexity of supercomputers and highly parallel systems
requires that the SPEC/HPSC develop different run and
reporting rules than those used by the SPEC/OSSC. The two
subgroups will work together, however, on projects that
require common methodologies, such as those involving
multiple processor and parallel systems.

SPEC is the model in setting industry standards for
performance evaluation. By operating as a steering
committee of SPEC, the HPSC will ensure that its executing
and reporting methodologies are carefully defined and that
results can be accurately reproduced.

The SPEC/HPSC will define its mission, charter, policies,
membership, voting rights, benchmark selection criteria,
codes and the run and reporting rules for the codes. The
HPSC will soon elect its own officers to conduct meetings
and work on the benchmark codes. Several candidate
benchmark codes have already been selected by the committee
for evaluation.

--Over--


SPEC's mission is to provide tools that help computer
vendors and users gain more insight into expected
performance. Membership in SPEC has grown to more than 35
organizations, including computer vendors, systems
integrators, research firms and academic institutions. SPEC
reports benchmark test results each quarter in the SPEC
Newsletter.

SPEC/HPSC information is available through Dave Kuck at 217-
356-2288, e-mail: dave@kai.com or Philip Tannenbaum at 713-
364-0030, e-mail: tannenbaum@hstc.necsyl.com. General SPEC
information can be obtained through the National Computer
Graphics Association (NCGA), phone: 1-800-225-NCGA or 703-
698-9600, fax: 703-560-2752, or e-mail: spec-
ncga@cup.portal.com.

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Press contacts: Bob Cramblitt Dianne
Dean
Cramblitt & Company NCGA
Ph: 919-481-4599 Ph: 703-698-9600
Fax: 919-481-4639 Fax: 703-560-2752
Cramblitt@cup.portal.com spec-ncga@cup.portal.com