A Detailed Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Influence of Hardware Artifacts on SPEC Integer Benchmark Performance

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computers Vol. 73; no. 5; pp. 1 - 12
• Main Authors: Wang, Yueyao, Furman, Samuel, Hardy, Nicolas, Ellis, Margaret, Back, Godmar, Hong, Yili, Cameron, Kirk
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Artifact identification; Benchmark testing; Benchmarks; Central Processing Unit; Central processing units; Computers; CPU Benchmark; CPUs; Data Visualization; Hardware; Libquantum; Performance evaluation; Questions; Regression Analysis; Sensitivity Analysis; SPEC Normalization; Statistical analysis; System performance

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) CPU benchmark has been widely used as a measure of computing performance for decades. The SPEC is an industry-standardized, CPU-intensive benchmark suite and the collective data provide a proxy for the history of worldwide CPU and system perform...