This document presents the benchmark SPECpower_ssj2008® which was developed and published by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®). SPECpower_ssj2008 measures the energy efficiency of volume server class computers by evaluating both the power and performance characteristics of the System Under Test (SUT). Because of SPECpower_ssj2008’s defined measurement standard it allows th...

Superpixel segmentation showed to be a useful preprocessing step in many computer vision applications. This led to a variety of algorithms to compute superpixel segmentations, each with individual strengths and weaknesses. We discuss the need for a standardized evaluation scheme of such algorithms and propose a benchmark including data sets, error metrics, usage guidelines and an open source im...

The FRPOLY Lisp performance benchmark [3] was based on a circa1968 piece of code for computing powers of polynomials. We address two questions: (a) What algorithm would you use if you really wanted to compute powers of polynomials fast? and (b) Given that Common Lisp supports many types of data structures other than the simple lists used for the benchmark, what more efficient representations mi...

Various techniques of fitness landscape analysis for the determination of optimisation problem hardness for evolutionary algorithms are proposed in the literature. However, a few implementations of these techniques and their application in practice are described nowadays. In the paper comparative statistical and information analysis for benchmark fitness functions such as Sphere, Rastrigin, Ros...

A variety of algorithms in both computer vision and graphics use datasets of an object or scene captured with fixed camera but varying illumination. Evaluating these algorithms is frequently challenging because of the lack of ground truth on the one hand, and insufficiently realistic and varied synthetic datasets on the other. In this work, we present a synthetic benchmark for applications such...

The transputer is a powerful processor designed to be used as a component in multiprocessor systems. In this paper the transputers processing power is compared to other computer systems and its communication capacity is evaluated. The benchmarks programs test how well a processor performs scientific computation. The test programs are short sequential Fortran and Occam programs, which are execut...

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A simple method of measuring performance is by means of a benchmark program. Unless such a program is carefully constructed it is unlikely to be typical of the many thousands of programs run at an installation. An example benchmark for measuring the processor power of scientific computers is presented: this is compared with other methods of assessing computer power. (Received December