HubHip: Computers: Performance and Capacity: Benchmarking (28)

   Benchmarking

• Chris' Lightwave Benchmarks (Site) - A constantly growing database of computer systems benchmarked using NewTek's LightWave 3D.
• Dacris Benchmarks .NET (Site) - Developer of Benchmarking/Optimization tools for Windows PC's.
• EEMBC (Site) - EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmarking Consortium is a non-profit consortium that develops benchmark suites that target key embedded system applications.
• David Kubelka (Site) - Performance tools for computer professionals.
• BenchWeb (Site) - A starting point for finding information about computer system performance, benchmark test results and benchmark source code.
• The Benchmark Gateway (Site) - TOP performers in all of the major public benchmarks, TPC, SPEC, Oracle, SAP, and Intel.
• The Performance Database Server (Site) - SPEC information provided courtesy of SPEC and the University of Tennessee.
• Radifed (Site) - Sample benchmarks and links to benchmarking programs
• TPC (Site) - 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.
• Open Source Passive TCP Application Response Time Monitor for Linux (Site) - 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.
• Standards Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) (Site) - A standards body for performance benchmarks. SPEC is an umbrella organization encompassing the efforts of the Open Systems Group.
• PerfSuite (Site) - 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.
• NT vs. Linux Server Benchmark Data (Site) - Links and summaries of results of benchmarks comparing Windows NT and Linux network performance.
• STREAM (Site) - 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.
• LMBench (Site) - Tools for performance analysis, latency and bandwidth measurement of hardware and the operating system. [for Unix]
• Benchmarks For PCs (Site) - Pre-compiled benchmarks for PCs, covering CPU, RAM, HDD and graphics.
• SysOpt.com (Site) - 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.
• Fresh Diagnose (Site) - Free software to analyze and benchmark your computer system.
• Spec's - GPC Home Page (Site) - News and performance numbers from the Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Group
• Avoka Technologies (Site) - Software and services for benchmarking and load testing of web sites, especially eCommerce. White papers and links.
• Bonnie (Site) - Benchmarks that measure the performance of Unix file system operations, concerned mainly with identifying bottlenecks.
• IT Transition (Site) - Offering benchmark services in the UK.
• Software, System and network testing (Site) - Benchmark testing operating systems with Microsoft funded Windows NT verses Linux tests.
• Load Testing of any technology (Site) - Consulting practice focused on load testing with the Mercury Interactive tool.
• Open Source FTP Benchmark (Site) - 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.
• CPU Benchmarks with POVRAY (Site) - Multi and single CPU system benchmark tests. Containing a gallery of generated images.
• Haveland-Robinson Associates - PoVBench (Site) - Benchmark database, serving as a guide to the relative maths performance of various computers, processors and compilers.
• Specbench CPU95 Results (Site) - This is the HTML FORM's interface to more than one thousand benchmark results published by SPEC.