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SIPEW stands for “SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop”, and the SIPEW workshop 2008 was held on June 27 and 28 in Darmstadt, Germany, right after an internal SPEC conference that lasted almost a week. We had received an invitation to the event, which we weren’t familiar with, so we decided to attend and have a look behind the SPEC curtain.
The main purpose of the SIPEW 2008 workshop was to offer a platform for software and hardware manufacturers to meet with each other and benchmark engineers. Almost 100 attendees reflected the importance of the event, given its highly professional nature and deeply technical content, which really gets down to the nitty gritty of benchmarking. At registration, all attendees received a book on the topics of the workshop: Performance Evaluation – Metrics, models and benchmarks.
While most of the content is truly scientific and out of range for people who don’t have a background in statistics, math, software architecture and the issues related to benchmarking, the keynotes discussed topics related to benchmarking, which are more relevant for benchmarking in practice. Two of the main topics were scheduling in server farms and the keynote on SPECpower_ssh2008, which is SPEC’s power efficiency benchmark that was released in late 2007.
Yawn .. what a boring article.
Yawn .. what a boring article.
Sounds like a good place to talk about what you'd like to be reading from the Tom's crew. We're all ears =)
I am expecting you use that software as sample between 9800GTX and HD 4850 both are good contender
I am expecting you use that software as sample between 9800GTX and HD 4850 both are good contender
Unfortunately, probably not going to happen ;-)
Wouldn’t it be MORE fair to say that SPECviewperf is more like a cheat test that states that very crippled workstation cards are still faster than the vastly hardware superior “gaming” cards only due to driver restriction and more importantly, software optimizations?
If anything SPEC is one big Cheat tester, whose results you might as well plunge down the drain, since you aren’t going to get any useful info out of them.
To top that off, the test still uses OpenGL- just burry the darn thing. Mac users can complain all they want, but no self-respecting professional application has been recommending OGL for anything, but legacy for quite some time now. OpenGL is outdated for several years now. It’s both noticeably slower and has far lesser visual quality compared to DX 9.0c implementations.
I’m not sure about the rest of the SPEC family, but if SPECviewperf is any indication, its not looking good for them either.
I get that SPECheatTest can exist since many ignorant people still use “professional” cards and OpenGL, but why don’t you at least mention this in your article, or are you happy Quadro Mac users as well? Testing under a bell environment that proves that "professional" cards with 1/20 power of a current "gaming" card is still faster is just a self fulfilling prophecy. Who needs to see this propaganda? Who are workstation cards manufacturers trying to fool? The ignorant. How about you? Question directed at THG.
Both “SPECheatTest” and “Macs are not 200% more expensive, honest” articles have been an insult to the intelligence.
Thank you for reading.
Could anything be more further from the truth? How about black is actually white. Yeah, that about does it- barely.