SPEC HPC2002: The Next High-Performance Computer Benchmark

The High-Performance Group of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC/HPG) [1] is developing a next release of its high-performance computer benchmark suite. The current suite, SPEChpc96 [2] is expected to be replaced by the SPEC HPC2002 suite in the second quarter of the year 2002. HPC2002 represents a minor update to SPEC's current high-performance computing benchmarks. In the last subsection of this document we describe SPEC's longer-term plans.