The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has issued a call for papers on performance evaluation subjects for the SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2007, a free event to be held Sunday, January 21, 2007, at the Park Plaza Hotel in Austin, Texas.
Deadline for extended abstracts (four to six pages) or full papers (10-12 pages, double-column IEEE format) is Friday, November 17, 2006. Papers can be submitted to the workshop program committee at specworkshop@spec.org.
The SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2007 will bring together developers and users of performance evaluation software. Presentations will center on currently available benchmark suites; use of benchmarks in industry, academia and government; and benchmarking methodologies. David A. Bader, executive director of high-performance computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is program chair for the second annual workshop.
An award in memory of Kaivalya Dixit, SPEC’s co-founder and long-time president, will be given to the person making the best contribution to the workshop. Considered “Mr. SPEC” by peers and colleagues, Dixit was instrumental in developing the SPEC methodology for creating objective, repeatable benchmarks that reflect computing use in the real world.
Those attending the free workshop are also invited to participate in selected sessions during SPEC’s annual meeting that follows, January 22 to 25, 2007.
