Systems Benchmarking: For Scientists and Engineers

Samuel Kounev is a Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Software Engineering at the University of Würzburg (Germany). He has been actively involved in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the largest standardization consortium in the area of computer systems benchmarking, since 2002. He serves as the elected chair of the SPEC Research Group, which he initiated in 2010 with the goal of providing a platform for collaborative research efforts between academia and industry in the area of quantitative system evaluation. Samuel is also co-founder of several conferences in the field, including the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) and the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS), for which he serves on the steering committees. He has published extensively in the area of systems benchmarking, modeling, and evaluation of performance, energy efficiency, reliability, and security.

Klaus-Dieter Lange is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where he started his professional career in 1998. His focus is on performance and workload optimization, industry-standard benchmark development, server efficiency, and the design of sustainable secure enterprise solutions. He serves on the SPEC Board of Directors and has been on the ICPE Steering Committee since its inception. Klaus is the founding chair of the SPECpower Committee, which, under his technical leadership, develops and maintains the SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark, the SPEC PTDaemon Interface, the Chauffeur Worklet Development Kit, and the Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT) suite, among others. In 2020, Klaus drove the establishment of the SPEC International Standards Group (ISG) for which he has been serving as chair since then.

Jóakim von Kistowski is a Professor of Software Design at Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany). He focuses on modern software architectures, cloud-native software development, DevOps, and Green IT. In his prior role as senior software architect, Jóakim contributed to the adoption of new software performance, load testing, and benchmarking methods in industry. Jóakim has a strong SPEC background, having actively contributed to the SPECpower Committee and served as former chair of the SPEC RG Power Working Group.