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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.
Something that provides part of a workload to a SUT for a benchmark. Commonly in SPEC usage, this term applies to a client system that is used to drive the SUT over a LAN; however this term can also be used to describe a process (either on a client or the SUT) which is generating a load for the benchmark.