Technology evolves at a breakneck pace.
With this in mind, SPEC believes that computer benchmarks need to evolve as well. While the older benchmarks still provide a meaningful point of comparison, it is important to develop tests that can consider the changes in technology. Danny Sleator 's link grammar system , and CSD and ECE Professor Dave O'Hallaron 's earthquake simulation system have both been selected to be part of the SPEC2000 benchmark suite . Only 26 systems were selected to be part of the suite, from among hundreds considered. The Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax .