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A12: As more multi-processor systems became available, the SPEC High Performance Group saw a need for a benchmark suite to measure parallel performance, and more specifically, the performance of shared-memory parallel systems. The OpenMP directives were used because they have become the de facto standard for implementing this type of parallelism.
