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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.
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MEMORY BANDWIDTH: STREAM BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE RESULTS  Hypermail archives of original contributions Source Code Directory Raw Data Files STREAM2 (experimental) pages. Shortcut Links to All Tables Bandwidth MFLOPS Balance Top 20 Standard Tuned PC compatible Mac Compatible Experimental/Non-standard MPI 32 bit Obsolete Here are the RESULTS! Top...
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/

EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmarking Consortium is a non-profit consortium that develops benchmark suites that target key embedded system applications.
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http://www.eembc.org

A starting point for finding information about computer system performance, benchmark test results and benchmark source code.
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BenchWeb  This document is designed to be viewed using Netscape 2.0 s Frame features. If you are seeing this message, you are not using a browser capable of dispalying frames. Click here for a version of this document that does not...
http://www.netlib.org/benchweb/

SPEC information provided courtesy of SPEC and the University of Tennessee.
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PDS: The Performance Database Server  C information is provided courtesy of SPEC and the University of Tennessee. All information has previously appeared in the SPEC Newsletter and the contents are the SPEC submitter's responsibility. SPEC and the University of Tennessee make no warranties about the...
http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html

TPC
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.
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Transaction Processing Performance Council  Special invitation to academic government institutions Home  160; Results  160; Benchmarks  160; Technical Articles  160; Related Links  160; What's New  160; About the TPC  160; Who We Are  160; Privacy Policy  160; About Pricing  160; Contact Us  160 169;2001 2004 TPC 160;All rights reserved 160;...
http://www.tpc.org/

A standards body for performance benchmarks. SPEC is an umbrella organization encompassing the efforts of the Open Systems Group.
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SPEC Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation  C develops benchmark suites and also reviews and publishes submitted results from our member organizations and other benchmark licensees. What's New: 11/30/2005 The deadline for submissions for the SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2006 has been extended to December 9, 2005. 11/07/2005...
http://www.spec.org/

Links and summaries of results of benchmarks comparing Windows NT and Linux network performance.
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NT vs. Linux Server Benchmark Comparisons  Various benchmarks comparing the web, file, and database server performance of NT and Linux have been performed recently. This page summarizes the results of some of those comparisons, and shows interesting graphs (if available) from each benchmark effort. Windows 2003...
http://www.kegel.com/nt-linux-benchmarks.html

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

News and performance numbers from the Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Group
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Welcome to GPC News  Efficient rendering of geometric data using OpenGL VBOs in SPECviewperf June 2005 SPECopc cleans code, looks to future with release of new SPECviewperf 8.1 May 2005 SPECapc boosts complexity, variety in new 3ds max 7 benchmark software April 2005 SPEC/GPC...
http://www.spec.org/gpc/

Benchmarks that measure the performance of Unix file system operations, concerned mainly with identifying bottlenecks.
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textuality Bonnie  Bonnie is a benchmark which measures the performance of Unix file system operations. Bonnie is concerned with identifying bottlenecks; the name is a tribute to Bonnie Raitt, who knows how to use one. Bonnie is not the biggest nor most...
http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/

Database of business diagnostics and benchmarking tools and training. As well as a resource centre of reports, studies, abstracts and articles related to total quality management, benchmarking, business improvement and management.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mangb/strategy/engdoc/welcome.html

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

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.
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dkftpbench  Need to stress out an ftp server, or measure how many users it can support? dkftpbench can do it. Want to write your own highly efficient networking software, but annoyed by having to support very different code for Linux, FreeBSD,...
http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/

TOP performers in all of the major public benchmarks, TPC, SPEC, Oracle, SAP, and Intel.
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benchmarks The Benchmark Gateway from IDEAS International  Home Products Overview Reports Consulting Competitive Profiles Servers Storage SANs Services Databases Benchmarks Overview TPC SPC SPEC Oracle SAP and more About IDEAS Overview News Corporate Investors More Info Support Feedback The Benchmark Gateway TPC SPEC SPC-1 Oracle SAP BAPCo...
http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html

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

Pre-compiled benchmarks for PCs, covering CPU, RAM, HDD & graphics.
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Roy Longbottom's PC Benchmark Collection  Collection comprises a large number of FREE benchmarks and reliability testing programs mainly to run via Windows 9X/NT/2K/XP. They are packaged in ZIP files which can be downloaded and unzipped into their own folders. No installation process is necessary just...
http://homepage.virgin.net/roy.longbottom/index.htm

Test application for webservers, which simulates the traffic and usage generated by a large number of simultaneous web users.
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IPCheck Server Monitor  You will be redirected to http www.bello-monitors-the.net/WebStress/webstress.htm bello network monitoring V5.2.0.418 Copyright 2005 Paessler AG...
http://www.server-monitor.com/WebStress/webstress.htm

Sample benchmarks and links to benchmarking programs
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Radified PC Benchmarks benchmarking using HD Tach, Atto, Sandra, 3DMark, CD Speed  C benchmarks for making comparisons, including links to download PC benchmarking programs PC Benchmarks Atto benchmark 36GB Seagate Cheetah X15-36LP hard drive WinME Atto hard drive benchmark, 18GB IBM 36LZX Win2K Atto benchmark, 18GB Seagate Cheetah X15 hard drive WinME...
http://benchmarks.radified.com/benchmarks.htm

Free software to analyze and benchmark your computer system.
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Fresh Diagnose Free diagnostic software: analyze and benchmark your computer system. Test your pentium 4, pentium iii, pentium ii, pentium 5, pentium iv, pentium processor, intel pentium, pentium 4 processor, intel pentium 4, pentium 2, pentium pro, pentium iii processor, pentium 4 motherboard, celeron vs pentium, pentium mmx, pentium 3 processor, dual pentium 4, intel pentium iii, xeon, intel xeon, xeon processor, dual xeon,  Diagnose is a utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard motherboard information, and much more Key features of...
http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdiag.html

Providing users with information and white-papers about benchmarking as well as providing links to related sites.
http://www.benchmarkresources.com

Offering testing and health check services for multi-user applications, a risk management seminar, and general information about challenges faced by service providers introducing multi-user IT solutions.
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E2 Systems home page  ...
http://www.e2systems.co.uk/e2/e2home.htm

Performance tools for computer professionals.
http://www.kubelka.com

Software and services for benchmarking and load testing of web sites, especially eCommerce. Site includes white papers and links.
http://www.avoka.com/

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.
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PasTmon The Passive Application Response Time Monitor  Measure the transaction response times of your web and application servers. Perform continuous passive monitoring of network traffic. Record historical data of measurements in a backend database and present via a PHP based web front-end. PasTmon is a passive network...
http://pastmon.sourceforge.net

Offering benchmark services in the UK.
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IT Transition Moving to ASP and e-Commerce  Transition specialises in the management of change within Information Technology, particularly when that change involves moving between different technologies or between different suppliers. We concentrate on systems using Unix, Oracle and NT. Over the last two years, most of our...
http://www.ittransition.co.uk/

Developer of Benchmarking/Optimization tools for Windows PC's.
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Dacris Software High quality software products and consulting services.  Our software products are professional, easy to use, and highly innovative. Latest News ActiSetup 2005 Patch NetXP 4.0 Announced ActiSetup 2005 Patch Latest Articles Menu always shows up on first monitor Multiple shortcuts with the same ID are generated Some...
http://www.dacris.com

Consulting practice focused on load testing with the Mercury Interactive tool.
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Load Testing by RPM Solutions Pty Ltd  We are passionate about load testing and system performance, and we want to contribute to the success of your enterprise. Our methodical approach to identifying and tackling performance problems can deliver outstanding performance gains, and has been used by companies...
http://www.loadtest.com.au

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.
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PerfSuite at SourceForge  Here is where you can find pointers to other sources of information about PerfSuite. About PerfSuite PerfSuite is a collection of performance analysis software that can assist with a variety of methods and techniques useful for application software optimization. The...
http://perfsuite.sourceforge.net/