Help wanted: How you can improve tomorrow’s workstations

SPEC GWPG has opened a search, looking for complex models and applications that may be useful in its quest to update its present workstation and graphics benchmark for Autodesk 3ds Max, as it seeks to better align the benchmark with today’s users’ needs and experiences. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)—a non-profit for establishing, maintaining, and endorsing standardized benchmarks and tools for evaluating performance and efficiency for the latest generation of computing systems—has just started a Benchmark Search Program for the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (GWPG). The goal of the program is to engage with the community and