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- From: ifenton@crc.ac.uk (I. Fenton)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
- Subject: SPEC : questions, copyright, summary - a database of spec's ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.143948.27382@crc.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:39:48 GMT
- Sender: news@crc.ac.uk
- Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
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- i have been reading this group for a while now, and am interested in most
- benchmarks (i like a good laugh <grin>), and inparticular the supposedly
- independent ones such as SPEC and TPC-x (x=A,B, etc). so, maybe i am
- sticking my neck out, but here goes...
-
- i would like to complie a list of all (!) SPECmark ratings, both INT & FP,
- even THRUput, if possible. basically i would like to be able to produce a
- list that i could post every-so-often when a new spec-mark for a new machine
- appears. this would be of interest when the dec-alpha marks came out, to
- give an example. this however, raises a coupla questions...
-
- is it legal ? am i infringing SPEC's copyright ?
-
- how should i report them ? i assume that i would include supplementary
- info along with each benchmark result, such as cpu (with mhz rating),
- cache size (?), memory (is it relevant?), compiler used? i assume that
- it is necessary to chop the results up into specint92, specfp92, and
- specthruput, (and also spec89marks, if relevant). i would probably also
- separate the multi-cpu from the single-cpu results.
-
- i have read the FAQ pertaining to spec-stuff. perhaps i am trying to create
- a store of spec-marks that could be attached to a FAQ, although this is not
- my intention. it is intented to be stand-alone (!) from a faq. do you think
- anyone from spec would be upset. and no, i can't be bothered to go and
- ask them myself. any comments welcomed (flame-proof suit on...) mainly be
- postings, email also.
-
- thanks...
-
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