Sites like SPEC

01 · Entity

About SPEC

SPEC spec.org

SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

Wikidata: American non-profit corporation

Top 10K · #5,956 English 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

Non-profit consortium that develops and licenses standardized, vendor-neutral benchmarks for measuring computer system performance and energy efficiency, publishes benchmark results, and co-organizes performance engineering conferences.

Who it’s for

Hardware and software vendors, researchers, IT buyers

Business model

Membership dues and benchmark license fees

• computer performance benchmarking
• SPEC CPU benchmark
• SPECpower energy efficiency
• SPECapc workstation benchmarks
• server performance results
• GPU workload benchmarking
• ICPE conference
• SPECviewperf

02 · Embedding space

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   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ieee.org Top 1K English

   American professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering

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   Society for Human Resource Management shrm.org Top 10K English

   Welcome to SHRM | The Voice of All Things Work

   For all things work, turn to SHRM, the world’s largest HR association dedicated to creating better workplaces that work for all.

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   Tom's Hardware tomshardware.com Top 10K English

   Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast

   Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..

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   Association for Computing Machinery acm.org Top 10K English

   international learned society for computing

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   IETF ietf.org Top 1K English

   IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force

   The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.

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   Intel intel.com Top 1K English

   Intel Inside - Built for AI

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   College Board collegeboard.org Top 10K English

   College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools

   College Board is a non-profit organization that clears a path for all students to own their future through the AP Program, SAT Suite, BigFuture, and more.

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   Accenture accenture.com Top 10K English

   Reinvented with Accenture

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   National Academies nationalacademies.org Top 10K English

   National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

   Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.

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    University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ucar.edu Top 10K English

    University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

    consortium dedicated to scientific research

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    ManageEngine manageengine.com Top 10K English

    ManageEngine: ITOps, cybersecurity & service management software

    ManageEngine powers businesses like yours to take control of your IT with enterprise-grade solutions built from the ground up.

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    Speedtest speedtest.net Top 1K English

    Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

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    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

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    w3.org Top 1K English

    W3C

    The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

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    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

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    IBM ibm.com Top 1K English

    IBM

    For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

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    American Physical Society aps.org Top 10K English

    American Physical Society

    The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.

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    arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English

    arXiv.org e-Print archive

    online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers

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    Better Business Bureau bbb.org Top 10K English

    American organization

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    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

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04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What SPEC is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.