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Identifying Shades of Green: The SPECpower Benchmarks.

The article discusses the SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark from Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation for assessing the power and performance of computer systems. SPECpower_ssj2008 represents an effort to respond to the growing demand for servers that are energy-efficient. The standard serves to pr...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 95 - 98
Main Author: Lange, Klaus-Dieter
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Mar2009
Subjects:
Standards
Energy consumption
Computer systems
Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.
Client/server computing
Computer network architectures
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark from Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation for assessing the power and performance of computer systems. SPECpower_ssj2008 represents an effort to respond to the growing demand for servers that are energy-efficient. The standard serves to promote component- and system-level improvements in design and optimization while at the same time discouraging misleading marketing. SPECpower_ssj2008 measures energy efficiency in terms of ssj_ops per watt.