What is a non-compliant result?
The SPEC OSG benchmarks are governed by Run and Reporting Rules and a SPEC license agreement. Results generated in a manner that is not consistent with the policies in those documents are considered non-compliant results. Non-compliant results are not comparable to results generated with those that adhere to the Run and Reporting Rules and the license agreement. In some cases an issue of compliance may not be discovered until after a result has already been made public on SPEC’s web site. If it is discovered that a non-compliant result has been published on the SPEC web site, the following occurs: • the numeric values/graphs on the web pages for the result are listed as “NC” for non-compliant. • the web pages are annotated with a statement declaring that the result was found to be non-compliant and the reason for that declaration. • Additional information (for example, typically a pointer to a result that addresses the non-compliance) may also be part of that annotation. If it is disco
