Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Employee Directory
IT Services and IT ConsultingVirginia, United States11-50 Employees
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Gainesville, Virginia, focused on benchmarking high-performance computing systems. It develops benchmark suites and oversees the submission, review, and publication of results from member organizations and other benchmark licensees. The organization aims to provide neutral, standardized metrics that measure compute-intensive performance on the latest generation of hardware. Its work sits within the IT services and IT consulting space, serving hardware vendors, researchers, and other participants who use or license SPEC benchmarks. SPEC maintains and endorses benchmarks, acting as a steward of industry-standard performance evaluation. In May 2026, SPEC released the SPEC CPU 2026 benchmark suites, reflecting ongoing updates to its benchmarking portfolio.