On the use of SPEC benchmarks in computer architecture research
Reinhold P. Weicker · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 1997
Benchmarks, in particular the SPEC CPU benchmarks, are frequently used in academic computer research. With ASPLOS-7 as an example, observations about such usage are reported, and suggestions are made for a meaningful use of benchmarks in computer architecture research. Forward-looking computer architecture research may need more than one benchmark collection.