Benchmarking

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.
http://www.tpc.org/

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

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

Spec's - GPC Home Page - News and performance numbers from the Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Group
http://www.spec.org/gpc/

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

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

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.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Source FTP Benchmark - 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.
http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/

IT Transition - Offering benchmark services in the UK.
http://www.ittransition.co.uk/

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

Open Source Passive TCP Application Response Time Monitor for Linux - 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.
http://pastmon.sourceforge.net

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

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

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.
http://www.sysopt.com/

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

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

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

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

PerfSuite - 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.
http://perfsuite.sourceforge.net/