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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.
A CPU, either the chip or the core elements within a chip. Another term SPEC deprecated. The amount of time that a particular benchmark took to run on a specific reference platform. The set of benchmark rules that defines what constitutes a valid full disclosure for that benchmark.