SPEC award recipients, Java
Thursday Feb 14, 2008
More SPECtacular awards given at SPEC's 2008 annual meeting in San Francisco, these to members of the Java committee. As before, I won't post anyone's name without permission, but you know who you are and SPEC is grateful for your contributions.
SPEC's Java committee maintains, reviews, and publishes benchmark results for SPECjvm98, the first industry standard benchmark of Java client performance; SPECjAppServer2004, the benchmark of Java application server performance; SPECjbb2005, the benchmark of Java server performance; and the newest SPECjms2007, the benchmark of Java Messaging Service performance.
SPECjvm is the only pre-Y2K benchmark in that list. Think how much CPU performance has improved and how much the Java platform has grown in scope from 1998 to today, and it's clear that SPECjvm98 is due for update which should be announced this quarter. Messaging is an increasingly crucial part of the Internet infrastructure, and of enterprise applications, but until the release of SPECjms2007 there was no standardized way to quantify the performance of various solutions.
Sam Kounev of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, was cited for his leadership as chair of SPEC's JMS team in driving and bringing SPECjms2007 to market. Key developers on the project included Kai Sachs from TU Darmstadt, Lawrence Cullen from IBM, and his team of messaging developers at IBM Hursley laboratory, UK, including Tim Dunn and Martin Ross. An engineer from Sun, Silicon Valley, was cited for specification and design of the benchmark and the run and reporting rules.
Stefan Sarne of BEA Systems, Stockholm, and Evgeniya Maenkova from Intel, St. Petersburg, Russia, were cited for coding, testing, and finalizing the new Java client benchmark.
Leading such a large committee with so many projects and so many company interests has not been an easy job, and we were fortunate in 2007 to have a very capable engineer from Intel as our Java chairman. He always did what he saw was right, putting SPEC's interests foremost. He is moving on to other assignments this year, and will be terribly missed at SPEC.
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