The
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. A
non-profit corporation which makes
benchmarks for various computery tasks - who's got the fastest
web server? Whose
filesystem is more efficient? Their tests are to be taken more seriously than things like
Netbench or
Winstone, as they have a very
stringent set of requirements for publishing the results. They provide
source code with each of their benchmarks for more
transparency. The test with which I am familiar is System
File Server (
SFS, formerly known as
LADDIS).
write-up is a person because in the US, corporations are legally people - nutty, huh?