SPECvirt

Type of computer server benchmarking tool

SPECvirt_sc2010 is a computer benchmark that evaluates the performance of a server computer for virtualization. It is available from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). It was introduced in July, 2010.^[1]

The SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark measures the maximum number of workloads that a platform can simultaneously run while maintaining specific quality of service metrics. Each workload, called a tile, consists of a specific set of virtual machines.^[2]

In addition to generating results that show performance, the benchmark can also be used to generate performance per watt results.

The SPECvirt_sc2010 was not supported by SPEC from February 26, 2014 ^[3] and its successor is SPECvirt_sc2013.^[4]

References

^ SPEC Press Release
^ SPECvirt_sc2010 FAQ
^ SPECvirt_sc2010 retirement
^ SPECvirt_sc2013 FAQ

External links

[1] Official SPECvirt website

Processing benchmarks

Concepts

Free software
Proprietary software
Performance per watt
Data center infrastructure efficiency
Giga-updates per second (memory)
CPU power dissipation

Organizations

BAPCo consortium
EEMBC
Futuremark
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)

Processor

Floating-point unit (FLOPS)	SPECfp LINPACK LAPACK Prime95 Super PI SuperPrime Whetstone IBM iSeries benchmarks (Computational Intensive Workload)
Integer (ALU)	Dhrystone Fhourstones SPECint CoreMark
Digital signal processor (DSP)	BTDi
Graphics processing unit (GPU)	BRL-CAD
Parallel computing	DEISA Benchmark Suite Livermore loops NAS Parallel Benchmarks HPC Challenge Benchmark Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC)

Peripherals

Network	BreakingPoint Systems SUPS
Filesystems and storage	Bonnie++ HD Tach IOzone Diskspd
Computer memory	BSS Random Access benchmark HPC Challenge Random Memory Access
Input/output	Iometer Ioblazer IBM iSeries benchmarks (Commercial Processing Workload)

Computer system (entire)

Hierarchical INTegration (HINT)
NBench (CPU, memory)

Energy consumption

Software

JavaScript engine	Browser speed test
Cryptography	Cycles per byte
Multiuser system	SDET AIM Multiuser Benchmark
Virtual machine	VMmark SPECvirt
Physics engine	Physics Abstraction Layer API Bench
Recursion performance	Tak (function)
Database transactions	TATP Benchmark Transaction Processing over XML (TPoX) YCSB (NoSQL)
Web server benchmarking	Apache JMeter Curl-loader httperf OpenSTA TPC-W Tsung
X Window System	Xmark93