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SPEC HPC96 Docs / Related Publications

The information contained in these pages is gathered from many sources that are believed to be useful. It does not represent an official documentation of the SPEC HPG benchmark suites.

Benchmark Documentation

• SPECclimate - The newest member in the SPEChpc96 suite is based on the mesoscale climate modeling system developed by the Pennsylvania State University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
  
  
• SPECseis96 - Questions and Answers
  
  
• SPECchem96 (GAMESS)

Related Publications

The following are publications that describe the benchmarks of the SPEC High Performance Group or that use the benchmarks in scientific studies. If you know of such publications that are not listed here, please let us know by sending mail to info@spec.org.

• Rudolf Eigenmann and Siamak Hassanzadeh. Benchmarking with Real Industrial Applications: The SPEC High-Perfomance Group. IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, Spring issue, 1996. Also available at http://www.spec.org/hpc96/docs/RelatedPublications/cse.ps (PostScript)

• Bill Pottenger and Rudolf Eigenmann. Targeting a Shared Address Space version of the Seismic Benchmark Seis1.1. http://www.spec.org/hpc96/docs/RelatedPublications/sas.ps (PostScript)