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		<title>Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPEC is a non-profit organization that puts together benchmarks on a variety of products and services.  Currently they have a number of test areas:


CPU
Graphics / applications
HPC / OMP
Java Client / Server
Mail Servers
Network File System
Power and Performance
SIP
Virtualization
Web Servers

They obviously do not test every product on the market but it does provide some interesting results from major [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SPEC is a non-profit organization that puts together benchmarks on a variety of products and services.  Currently they have a number of test areas:</p>
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<p>They obviously do not test every product on the market but it does provide some interesting results from major vendors (EMC, HP, IBM, SUN, etc.)</p>
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