New working group on benchmarking research established at SPEC

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has formed a new working group with the goal to establish a new SPEC Research Committee whose mission will be to promote cutting-edge research on benchmarking methodologies and tools facilitating the development of benchmark suites and performance analysis frameworks for established and newly emerging technologies. Benchmarking, in this context, is understood in a broader sense covering any techniques and tools related to performance measurement, load testing, profiling and workload characterization. The working group will be coordinated by Samuel Kounev and Kai Sachs.