Available benchmark suites
Spec 95 (integer and floating-points) now SPEC CPU2000
- http://www.spec.org/
- Too many spec-specific compiler optimizations
Other “specific” SPEC: SPEC Web, SPEVC JVM etc.
Perfect Club and NASA benchmarks
- Mostly for scientific and parallelizable programs
TCP-A, TCP-B, TCP-C , TPC-D benchmarks
- Transaction processing (response time); decision support (data mining)
Desktop applications
- Recent UW paper (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/baer/isca98.ps)