Other Performance Web Sites

Performance Measurement Organizations:

BAPCo: The Business Applications Performance Council: A company whose charter is "to develop a set of objective performance benchmarks based on popular computer applications in industry standard operating systems."; the developers of SYSmark95 for Windows and SYSmark for Windows/NT.
EEMBC: The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium: The EEMBC is dedicated to "a collaborative effort in developing a suite of performance benchmarks that will target key applications of embedded systems", and provide an objective means for evaluating processors and controllers.
IOzone: A SPEC-sponsored archive that contains contributed public domain characterization and benchmarking tools. The software is free and is supported by their authors.
TPC: The Transaction Processing Performance Council. Another performance consortium, their focus is on system level benchmarks for OLTP and Decision Support systems.