glossary category

The process of supplying or removing air by natural or mechanical means to or from any space. Such air may or may not have been conditioned

Within IEEE 802.3, the total number of symbols per second transferred to or from the medium dependent interface (MDI) on a single wire pair. For 100BASE-T4, the symbol rate is 25 MBd. For 100BASE-X, the symbol rate is 125 MBd. For 100BASE-T2, the symbol rate is 25 MBd. For 1000BASE-T, the symbol rate is 125 MBd

See UPS, static

SPECweb96 is SPEC's first attempt at a benchmark for WWW servers. It measures a server's ability to handle HTTP/1.0 GET requests from a number of external client drivers

See air, supply

Part of the SPEC bureaucracy. Each free-standing group within SPEC has a steering committee that acts as the key decision-making body with full membership votes typically being reserved for benchmark ratifications and elections

For the OSG, the entity that has accepted the license agreement. In other words, the people who are responsible for ensuring that the results were obtained in accordance with any existing run and reporting rules. For the HPG, See benchmark sponsor who is a technical advisor for a particular benchmark

Ratio of the sensible heat load to the total heat load (sensible plus latent)

Service level agreement

A measure of how fast a given system might be. It is calculated by taking the elapsed time that was measured for a system to complete a specified job and dividing that into the reference time (the elapsed time that job took on a standardized reference machine). This measures how quickly, or more specifically, how many times faster than a particular reference machine, one system can perform a specified task. SPECratios are one style of metric from the SPEC CPU benchmarks, the other are SPECrates