SPECpower_ssj 2008

In December of 2007, the SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark was released, which exercises the CPUs, caches, memory hierarchy, and the scalability of shared memory processors on multiple load-levels. The benchmark runs on a wide variety of operating systems and hardware architectures. In version 1.10, which was released on April 15 2009, SPEC augmented SPECpower_ssj2008 with multi-node support (e.g., blade-support). Several enhancements and code changes to all benchmark components, documentation updates, and run and reporting rules enhancements were included in version 1.11, released September 13, 2011 and version 1.12, released March 30, 2012.

The Committee is working on the next SPECpower benchmark, designed for the next generation of servers. This is based on the Chauffeur test harness, supported by the latest PTDaemon interface. The major effort is currently focused on designing a new transactional workload supporting multiple load levels. Under consideration is native code support, GPGPU enablement, extended storage support and targeting a run time of not more than two hours.