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• Computers: Software: Internet: Site Management: Benchmarking  (11)

Avoka Technologies  www.avoka.com Software and services for benchmarking and load testing of web sites, especially eCommerce. White papers and links.

The Benchmark Gateway  www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/ben010.aspx TOP performers in all of the major public benchmarks, TPC, SPEC, Oracle, SAP, and Intel.

Benchmarks For PCs  homepage.virgin.net/roy.longbottom/index.htm Pre-compiled benchmarks for PCs, covering CPU, RAM, HDD and graphics.

BenchWeb  www.netlib.org/benchweb A starting point for finding information about computer system performance, benchmark test results and benchmark source code.

Bonnie  www.textuality.com/bonnie Benchmarks that measure the performance of Unix file system operations, concerned mainly with identifying bottlenecks.

Chris' Lightwave Benchmarks  www.blanos.com/benchmark A constantly growing database of computer systems benchmarked using NewTek's LightWave 3D.

CPU Benchmarks with POVRAY  www.tabsnet.com Multi and single CPU system benchmark tests. Containing a gallery of generated images.

Dacris Benchmarks .NET  www.dacris.com Developer of Benchmarking/Optimization tools for Windows PC's.

David Kubelka  www.kubelka.com Performance tools for computer professionals.

EEMBC  www.eembc.com EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmarking Consortium is a non-profit consortium that develops benchmark suites that target key embedded system applications.

Fresh Diagnose  www.freshdevices.com/freshdiag.html Free software to analyze and benchmark your computer system.

Graphics & Workstation Performance Group  www.spec.org/gwpg News and performance numbers from the GWPG.

Haveland-Robinson Associates - PoVBench  www.haveland.com/?povbench Benchmark database, serving as a guide to the relative maths performance of various computers, processors and compilers.

IT Transition  www.ittransition.co.uk Offering benchmark services in the UK.

LMBench  www.bitmover.com/lmbench Tools for performance analysis, latency and bandwidth measurement of hardware and the operating system. [for Unix]

Load Testing of any technology  www.loadtest.com.au Consulting practice focused on load testing with the Mercury Interactive tool.

NT vs. Linux Server Benchmark Data  www.kegel.com/nt-linux-benchmarks.html Links and summaries of results of benchmarks comparing Windows NT and Linux network performance.

Open Source FTP Benchmark  www.kegel.com/dkftpbench Home page for the dkftpbench FTP benchmark. Measuring how many simultaneous dialup users can be down loading from an FTP site at the same time.

Open Source Passive TCP Application Response Time Monitor for Linux  pastmon.sourceforge.net Uses packet sniffer technology to monitor IP applications, such as HTTP, SMTP and POP3. It measures response times, through put and congestion. In beta release as of 7 May 2002.

The Performance Database Server  performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html SPEC information provided courtesy of SPEC and the University of Tennessee.

PerfSuite  perfsuite.sourceforge.net A collection of tools to help analyze and improve software performance on Intel (x86 and ia64) and AMD (x86 and x86-64) systems running Linux, including tools for measuring hardware performance (CPU/cache/memory), message passing, compiler optimization, and I/O activity.

Radifed  benchmarks.radified.com/benchmarks.htm Sample benchmarks and links to benchmarking programs

Software, System and network testing  www.mindcraft.com Benchmark testing operating systems with Microsoft funded Windows NT verses Linux tests.

Specbench CPU95 Results  www.spec.org/cgi-bin/osgresults?conf=cpu95 This is the HTML FORM's interface to more than one thousand benchmark results published by SPEC.

Standards Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)  www.spec.org A standards body for performance benchmarks. SPEC is an umbrella organization encompassing the efforts of the Open Systems Group.

STREAM  www.cs.virginia.edu/stream Sustainable memory bandwidth discussion, with results on a wide variety of computer systems. From Macs and PCs to the most current and recent workstations, right up to Cray supercomputers. From the Department of Computer Science at Virginia.

SysOpt.com  www.sysopt.com System optimization site provides PC users with information to get the most out of their systems. Includes over-clocking guides, benchmark score surveys, evaluations of over 360 Internet PC hardware mail order retailers and performance tweaking advice.

TPC  www.tpc.org Transaction Processing Performance Council, a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.