From: jwreilly@mipos2.intel.com (Jeffrey Reilly)
Subject: Source of SPEC b'marks (was Re: need ftp )
Followup-To: comp.benchmarks
Summary: SPEC, source, donate a benchmark
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:02:52 GMT

In article <BvEMqG.5Av@metaflow.com> rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp) writes:
>In article <BvECrx.L63@inews.Intel.COM>, jwreilly@mipos2.intel.com (Jeffrey Reilly) writes:
>|> In article <2AC8F951.9029@news.service.uci.edu> jtien@venice.eng.uci.edu (Joe Tien) writes:
>|> >
>|> >Could someone tell me the ftp site for the Specmark benchmark program (in C).
>|> 
>|> The SPEC benchmarks suites are licensed software products. You can
>|> obtain information about obtaining them from...
>
>True, but some of the SPEC benchmarks stem from freely available
>code.  

Quite true. In fact, all of the SPEC benchmarks are donated code. (And
SPEC is always looking for new benchmarks...contact them if interested)

>I would say that if you are simply interested in researching
>cache behaviors, you might want to get your hands on similar programs.
>For example, one of the integer SPECmarks is gcc, the gnu C compiler.
>This ought to be available pretty easily.  I'm not sure about others --
>anybody have suggestions?

For C benchmarks:

008.espresso was derived from the espresso program provided by the
Industrial Liason Program at Berkeley.

022.li was derived FROM XLISP 1.6 and developed by Sun.

023.eqntott was provided by Berkeley (see 008.espresso).

072.sc is a public domain spreadsheet. 

085.gcc is based on gcc1.35 and can be obtained from the Free Software 
Foundation at (617) 253-8830.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING (from the INTRO file provided with the SPEC
benchmark suites):

       "Many of the SPEC benchmarks have been derived from
       publically available application programs and all have been
       developed to be portable to as many current and future
       hardware platforms as possible. Hardware dependencies have
       been minimized to avoid unfairly favoring one hardware
       platform over another. For this reason, the application
       programs in this distribution should not be used to assess
       the probable performance of commercially available, tuned
	versions of the same application. The individual benchmarks
       in this suite may be similar, but NOT identical to
       benchmarks or programs with the same name which are
       available from sources other than SPEC; therefore, it is not
	valid to compare SPEC benchmark results with anything other
       than other SPEC benchmark results. Further, SPEC release 1
       benchmarks that are assigned new numbers have been changed
       in significant ways. These should also be considered
       different benchmarks and are not comparable.


It should also be noted that the SPEC workloads/input are covered by 
licensing.

And again, for information or obtaining the benchmark suites,
SPEC can be contacted at:

SPEC				Phone: 703-698-9600 ext 318
c/o NCGA			Fax: 703-560-2752
2722 Merrilee Drive, Suite 200
Fairfax, Va 22031-4499

Jeff
SPEC Release Manager for CINT92/CFP92 
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