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10/07/2026

📢 OCP SUMMIT SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT

Is your team evaluating next-generation server architectures at ?

Join SPEC President David Reiner for an exclusive overview of SPEC CPU 2026 and see how the gold standard for CPU performance measurement is evolving to reflect real-world enterprise workloads.

Session Details:
🎙️ Title: SPEC CPU 2026 - What's new, what's improved, and why it matters
👤 Speaker: David Reiner, SPEC President
🗓️ Date: Tuesday, October 13
⏰ Time: 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PT
📍 Location: SJCC - Concourse Level - Room 212
🔗 https://ow.ly/jPXS50ZTZ9m

Whether you manage datacenter infrastructure, evaluate chip architectures, or track server benchmarks, this 15-minute briefing will give you key insights into how SPEC CPU 2026 measures performance across generations and platforms.

Save it to your summit schedule and come say hello in Room 212!

At the 2026 Global Summit, industry leaders, researchers and pioneers from the open community will engage in dynamic dialogues, enlightening workshops, and interactive engineering sessions. These activities are designed to expand our understanding of the progress that our Projects have made as well....

10/02/2026

📺 WATCH: Interested in the future of CPU benchmarking?

Before the OCP Global Summit kicks off in San Jose, check out SPEC President David Reiner’s presentation from the OCP APAC Summit!

David breaks down how SPEC CPU 2026 - the gold standard for CPU performance measurement - is updating its metrics, workloads, and datasets to handle today's shifting silicon landscape and enterprise workloads.

Watch the session here: https://ow.ly/IyX250ZU1Wh

📍 If you're attending in San Jose on October 13, save Room 212 on your schedule to catch David's next live update!

09/23/2026

🌍 Join us in Gothenburg, Sweden for !

The Call for Contributions is officially OPEN for the 18th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering.

We’re seeking cutting-edge research and industrial insights across software performance engineering, AI infrastructure, cloud systems, and system benchmarking!

🗓️ Mark Your Calendar:
⏰ Abstracts Due: November 09, 2026 (AoE)
⏰ Full Papers Due: November 16, 2026 (AoE)

🔗 Details & Submission Portal: https://icpe2027.spec.org

Tag a colleague or co-author who should submit their research! 👇

09/22/2026

Big news for Linux workstation users, 3D creators, and hardware performance pros! 🐧💻

SPEC has officially released the SPECviewperf 15.0.1 Linux Edition benchmark, bringing trusted, industry-standard 3D graphics performance testing directly to Linux.

Now supporting major distributions—including Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Rocky Linux 10, and Fedora 43—the new benchmark features updated real-world workloads for Blender, Maya, SolidWorks, Creo, CATIA, and Siemens NX.

Plus, with an all-new GUI, scripted CLI controls, and a flexible modular architecture, testing and qualifying your systems is faster and easier than ever.

For more details or to download the benchmark, check out: https://ow.ly/slm650ZQi8q

08/07/2026

Heading to the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei next week?

Make sure to drop by Room 701H to catch SPEC President David Reiner presenting the future of server CPU benchmarking!

With the rise of agentic AI, custom cloud silicon, and new ISAs, the data center landscape is shifting fast. David will cover what’s new in SPEC CPU 2026—the 7th major release of the gold standard for measuring CPU, memory, and compiler performance.

Session Details:
Topic: SPEC CPU 2026 - What's new, what's improved, and why it matters
When: Wednesday, Aug 12 | 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Where: Room 701H (7th Floor), TaiNEX 2 (Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center)

If you'll be at TaiNEX 2, drop a comment below or stop by the session to connect! Learn more at: https://ow.ly/tV3k50ZxG2O

The Open Compute Project (OCP) is bringing together APAC communities for a very special two-day, in-person Summit to explore the many challenges and opportunities facing data center infrastructure, today and tomorrow. The OCP APAC Summit will showcase the latest innovations and technical advancement...

07/22/2026

Attending SIGGRAPH in LA this week? 🎨💻

Graphics benchmark scores get used all the time to compare systems and guide purchasing decisions—but a single score can easily hide what’s actually happening under the hood.

Join us tomorrow morning for our Birds of a Feather session, "Beyond the Score: Interpreting Graphics Benchmark Results for Better System Decisions."

We’ll be breaking down how workload design, display resolution, system balance, driver behavior, and software optimization shape performance in the real world—so you can make smarter hardware choices.

🗓️ Thursday, July 23
⏰ 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
📍 LA Convention Center, Room 518
🔗 Add it to your schedule: https://ow.ly/vBlo50ZrtVy

Hope to see you there!

05/05/2026

SPEC CPU 2026 is here! 🚀

We are proud to announce the availability of the SPEC CPU 2026 benchmark suites, the industry gold standard for vendor-neutral compute performance.

For 37 years, SPEC CPU has been the trusted "yardstick" for server buyers. This update reflects a massive multi-year collaboration between competing organizations to ensure performance metrics reflect today’s real-world software and hardware evolution.

A True Industry Collaboration

This release was made possible by the dedicated effort of the SPEC CPU committee members, including:

AMD, Ampere Computing, Arm, Dell Technologies, HPE, IBM, IEIT Systems, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Oracle, and SiFive.

What’s New?

➡️ 52 Real-World Benchmarks: Expanded from 43 to include modern workloads like an LLVM optimizing compiler and a Python interpreter.

➡️ Multidisciplinary Growth: Expanded to a wider array of domains—from scientific areas like astrophysics and flight dynamics to general-purpose areas like databases, EDA, and graph analytics.

➡️ Modern Language Support: Full compliance with C++17, C18, and Fortran 2018.

➡️ Next-Gen Scalability: Memory utilization has been quadrupled to 64GB to properly stress high-core-count CPUs and high-density hardware.

➡️ Expanded Datacenter Support: Formalized methodologies for bare-metal cloud platforms, ensuring relevance for both on-prem and cloud deployments.

Whether you are a server buyer, a system architect, or a hardware engineer, the SPEC CPU 2026 benchmark suites provide the unbiased, relevant insights needed to make informed technology investments.

Beyond Servers
While primarily for servers, these suites provide valuable insights for workstations, laptops, tablets, and smartphones as well. Whether you are a server buyer, a system architect, or a hardware engineer, SPEC CPU 2026 provides the unbiased, relevant insights needed to make informed technology investments across the entire compute spectrum.

🔗 Download the suites and read the full announcement here: https://ow.ly/6iI950YV3Jg