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SPEC provides special non-profit/educational discounts for organizations with 501C or equivalent standings on selected SPEC benchmark suites. Staff may request proof of qualification. All academic orders are licensed to a professor or full-time staff member.
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** Licensing Information:
- Multiple licenses for corporations are not necessary, however separate licenses are required for non-profits with multiple locations. To find out if your organization holds a current license for a specific SPEC benchmark suite before purchasing it, please contact SPEC headquarters.
- A non-commercial license is available for the SPEC GWPG and SPEC HPG benchmarks free of charge for use by individuals and organizations that are not required to have a commercial license. A commercial license is required for any commercial enterprise that is not a SPEC GWPG member (for the SPECapc® benchmarks, the SPECviewperf® benchmark, or the SPECworkstation® benchmark) or a SPEC HPG member (for the SPEC ACCEL® benchmark, SPEC MPI® benchmark, and SPEC OMP® benchmark) and is engaged in marketing, developing, testing, consulting for and/or selling computers, computer services, graphics devices, drivers or other systems or components in the computer marketplace.
- An example of SPEC's General Site License Agreement (PDF) and SPEC's SERT Site License Agreement (PDF) is provided for review before the purchase.
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Refunds:
If you are dissatisfied with the product the original software purchase price can be refunded within 30 days of purchase. To request a refund, please contact SPEC at info@spec.org.
SPECapc® Benchmark Requirements:
The SPECapc benchmarks provide only the performance testing software. They do
not include the actual applications, which are the intellectual property of their
respective software vendors (e.g. the SPECapc benchmark for Maya 2023 does not include a copy
of Maya 2023 software). Specific software version requirements can be found in the
benchmark run rules.
Embedded Benchmark Requirements:
The ULPMark®, IoTMark®-BLE, IotMark®-Wi-Fi, and SecureMark®-TLS benchmarks require the purchase of additional hardware from third party distributors.