Mention SPEC CPU 2006.

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           <strong>2007/07/16: Wilkinson Prize</strong>
       </dt>
       <dd>
-          The principal authors of deal.II&mdash;Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf
-         Hartmann and Guido Kanscht&mdash;have received the <a
+          The principal authors of <acronym>deal.II</acronym>&mdash;Wolfgang
+         Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann and Guido Kanscht&mdash;have received the <a
          href="http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/wilkinson/award/">J. H. Wilkinson
          Prize for Numerical Software</a> for their creation of and work on
          the deal.II library. The prize committee particularly noted the
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           and a nonlinear variant of it, the sine-Gordon equation.
       </dd>
 
+      <dt>
+          <strong>2006/08/24: <acronym>deal.II</acronym> is now part of the
+         SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark</strong>
+      </dt>
+      <dd>
+          A modified version of the <acronym>deal.II</acronym> library and the
+         step-14 tutorial program has been incorporated into the industry
+         standard <a href="http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/">SPEC CPU 2006</a>
+         benchmark testsuite that is used to determine the speed of
+         computers. It is part of the floating point testsuite <a
+         href="http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/CFP2006/">CFP2006</a> as benchmark
+         <a
+         href="http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/447.dealII.html">447.dealII</a>.
+         <p>
+         The inclusion of our software into an industry
+         standard benchmark testsuite will lead to better support of compilers
+         and machines for the kind of program we write, in particular for
+         unstructured hierarchical mesh computations. This will in turn
+         help make our codes run faster on future systems.
+      </dd>
+
       <dt>
           <strong>2006/2/12: step-20 is finished</strong>
       </dt>