<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We are very pleased to announce the second major release of the DaCapo benchmark suite, available for download now.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dacapobench/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/dacapobench/</a><br><br>This release represents a major overhaul of the suite, with significant change to the constituent benchmarks and to the benchmark harness and source code.<br><br>The 9.12 suite comprises 14 benchmarks; six of these are entirely new, one (h2) replaces hsqldb, and the remaining seven are significantly updated versions of benchmarks from our previous release, with updated inputs. The suite now includes application server workloads (tomcat, tradebeans, and tradesoap). Nine of the benchmarks are multi-threaded. We have retained four single-threaded benchmarks to reflect the continuing importance of single threaded workloads.<br><br>Release notes are available here:<br><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/dacapobench/files/9.12-bach/RELEASE_NOTES.txt/view">https://sourceforge.net/projects/dacapobench/files/9.12-bach/RELEASE_NOTES.txt/view</a></div><div><br>This release of the suite was developed primarily by Steve Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Robin Garner, and John Zigman of the ANU, with the assistance of many contributors.<div><br></div><div>We are extremely grateful for the generous financial support of Intel, which helped make this release possible.<br><br>We hope you enjoy using the suite.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Steve Blackburn, ANU<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Kathryn McKinley, UT Austin<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(On behalf of the DaCapo Project)</div></div></body></html>