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Speculation
An investment with an exceptionally high risk. Speculators may invest in a start-up company or in a volatile commodity. These risks carry the possibility of very high returns. Speculators often trade actively and many have hedging strategies to reduce their risks. See also: Hedge fund.
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Speculative; built without a purchaser or a tenant, but in anticipation of securing one when the project is completed.
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3) SPEC and the benchmark names SPECint and SPECfp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
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In a recent industry SPECfp benchmark, the HP Workstation zx6000 logged the world's fastest floating-point performance with SPECfpbase_2000 of 1,356.
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Additionally, the Sun Blade 150 workstation delivers 17% better price/performance than HP's B2600 entry-level workstation on the SPECint benchmark and 19% better price/performance on SPECfp.
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