The leading yardstick for measuring a system’s proces-
sor, memory and compiler support is the SPEC CPU2000
[12] suite compiled by the Standard Performance Eval-uation Corporation (For brevity we will drop the SPEC acronym in future references).CPU2000 is comprised of integer applications (12 benchmarks); (ii) CFP2000 for measuring compute-intensive floating point applications (14 benchmarks); CPU2000 is the 4th generation of CPU-intensive bench- marks by SPEC. Over the years it has gone through many changes, applications have been added, modified and if nec- essary dropped from the suite [4]. In terms of run-time, problem size, and application diversity, it is tailored to push the limits and measure the performance of modern com-puter systems. Even as this paper is being written, a search for candidate benchmarks for CPU2004 [14] is underway.