----http://wwwzenger.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/persons/ruede/vorles/wiss1/sc/skript/node71.html Paper mentioning benchmarking of single and multiprocessor machines, appears to be part of a larger multi-chaptered document. Mentions Linpack, SPEC, Dhrystone, etc. ----http://www.specbench.org SPEC's webpage ----USENET: comp.benchmarks ----http://sacam.oren.ortn.edu/~dave/benchmark-faq.html Usenet group comp.benchmarks FAQ ----http://www.csrd.uiuc.edu/benchmark/benchmark.html Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking Projects at CSRD ----http://reality.sgi.com/employees/lm/lmbench/lmbench.html What is lmbench? Suite of simple, portable benchmarks Compares different systems performance Results available for most major vendors (SUN, HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, PCs including 200 Mhz P6's) Free software, covered by the GNU General Public License. ----http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/%7Elaik/benchmarks/cached-nfs-results.html NFS performance results (using Bonnie) of Linux vs. FreeBSD ----http://bugle.cs.uiuc.edu/ PABLO group at the University of Illinois. Developing tools for evaluating performance of massively parallel systems. Several ongoing projects, including: Pablo Performance Analysis Environment High-Performance Fortran Integration (HPF) Virtual Reality for Performance Data Immersion WWW Server Performance Analysis Portable Parallel File System (PPFS) Input/Output Characterization Scalable I/O Initiative Also has a page discussing the philosophy of building such tools, including a white paper and slides. -----http://heureka.inf.elte.hu/%7Ecsepregi/motif/perf.html A paper exploring issues with XWINDOWS performance -----http://www.ito.darpa.mil/ResearchAreas/Networking_Systems/High_Performance_Networking.html Information about high performance networking machines (switchers, routers, brouters, etc... -----http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Apps/perf/NCSAperf_homepage.html Software performance at NCSA -----http://wwwcn.cern.ch/pdp/pa/aquila/aquila.html This report summarises the results of the CERN benchmark tests carried out on a variety of Mainfames and Workstations during the last fifteen years. The tests are a suite of FORTRAN programs used to determine the CPU power of a computer system for running High Energy Physics applications. They are essentially scalar due to the well known difficulties in vectorising this type of application, but a matrix inversion in FORTRAN is used to determine the vector potential of the system under test. This can be important for certain applications such as accelerator design, structural analysis, or lattice gauge calculations. The results from the early tests are normalised in terms of an IBM 370 Series, Model 168 and later in terms of a DEC VAX 8600 which is considered to have roughly the same capacity for HEP applications (1 CERN Unit). After a description of both the old and new tests, the results are presented in tabular form. -----http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ Department of Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia STREAM: Measuring Sustainable Memory Bandwidth in High Performance Computers -----http://www.sissa.it/furio/mdbnch.html MDBENCH, a molecular dynamics benchmark -----http://www.dfw.net/~sdw/index.html System Optimization Page dealing with PC type computers and benchmark comparisons of different processors, along withj upgrade tips, etc. -----http://web1.zdnet.com/zdlabs/ or http://web1.zdnet.com/zdbop/ Ziff-Davis Publishing Benchmarks page, claiming to be "The Ultimate Benchmark". The second link is the actual downloadable source code for the benchmarks. -----http://www.silkroad.com/linux-bm.html The Linux Benchmarks .