SPEC rate
<benchmark> Results of the throughput measurement using
SPEC benchmark suites
CINT92 and
CFP92.
With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed.
The method is particularly suitable for
multiprocessor systems.
The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780).
The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics.
See also
SPEC ratio.
