CaffeineMark 3.0
A series of tests that measure the speed of Java programs running in various hardware and software configurations. [Freeware]
url: www.benchmarkhq.ru/cm30/
Java Linpack Benchmark
A Java version numerically intensive test that has been used for years to measure the floating point performance of computers. By Jack Dongarra, Reed Wade, and Paul McMahan.
url: www.netlib.org/benchmark/linpackjava/
Java Microbenchmark Applet
Runs set of math related microbenchmarks. Author no longer recording times for these microbenchmarks and recoment use Doug Bell's benchmark applet, but old results present in table at page.
url: www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/microbench.html
jMocha
IBM's microbenchmarking framework and suite for Java. Uses sophisticated statistical calculations to ensure benchmarking accuracy. Can be used for optimising programs or for selecting the fastest Virtual Machine for a given application. [Open Source, IBM Public License]
url: oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jmo...
The Mauve Project
A collaborative, open source effort to build a testsuite for the core Java language libraries. [Open Source]
url: sources.redhat.com/mauve/
Optimizing Java Linpack Benchmark
By Jonathan Hardwick. Author took the original Java Linpack benchmark, by Jack Dongarra and Reed Wade, and applied some optimizations.
url: www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/linpack.html
SPEC JVM98 Benchmarks
Measures performance of Java Virtual Machines. [Commercial]
url: www.spec.org/osg/jvm98/
Volano JVM Benchmark
A pure Java server benchmark characterized by long-lasting network connections and high thread counts. It creates client connections in groups of 20 and measures the time required by the clients to take turns broadcasting a set of messages to the group.
url: www.volano.com/report/index.html
Make Java fast: Optimize!
Article by Doug Bell explores some low-level optimization techniques in Java and presents a Benchmark applet to measure Java's performance.
url: www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1997/jw-04-optim...
