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CSD Professor (and new Kanellakis Award
winner) Danny Sleator's link
grammar system, and CSD and ECE
Professor Dave O'Hallaron's earthquake
simulation system have both been selected to be part of the
SPEC2000 benchmark suite. Only 26 systems
were selected to be part of the suite, from among hundreds considered.
The SPEC benchmark suite provides an objective (and industry standard)
way to compare the performance of one computer system (or compiler)
to another on compute-intensive tasks. (The next generation of computers
will be tuned to perform well on these applications. See http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/
for more details.)
The Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic
parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of
English syntax. See http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/
for more.
O'Hallaron's earthquake simulation system
predicts the ground motion of large basins during strong earthquakes.
It's been used to compute the seismic response of the
Greater Los Angeles Basin. Learn more about the Quake project
at http://www.scs.cmu.edu/~quake.
SPEC 2000
"Technology evolves at a breakneck pace.
With this in mind, SPEC believes that computer benchmarks need to
evolve as well. While the older benchmarks still provide a meaningful
point of comparison, it is important to develop tests that can consider
the changes in technology."
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