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The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers.
Now, the term is often used to refer collectively to the CPU95 ratio speed metrics. A SPECrate is a throughput metric based on the SPEC CPU benchmarks (such as SPEC CPU95). This metric measures a system's capacity for processing jobs of a specified type in a given amount of time. Note: This metric is used the same for multi-processor systems and for uni-processors.