The Linux Benchmarking Project site was setup thanks to the Washington Area Unix Users Group (WAUUG) and the efforts of a few volunteers:

• David C. Niemi: our own benchmark guru, David is always on the lookout for new tests to add to Unixbench, a suite of portable Unix benchmarks he maintains and develops.
• Samuel S. Chessman: Sam is our SMP Linux kernel specialist. He is also responsible for the Apache installation, PHP/FI, mySQL and the Linux Benchmarking Project Repository design and implementation.
• Uwe F. Mayer: Uwe is our math and statistics expert (he has a PhD in Mathematics and is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt), so he makes sure nobody cheats about benchmarking numbers. He is also the maintainer/developer of Nbench-byte, a modern CPU benchmark suite.
• André D. Balsa: when not eating a Camembert in the south of France, André telnets to the WAUUG machine and uploads the latest version of these pages. He also wrote the Linux Benchmarking HOWTO.

There are many ways to contribute to this site:

• Results: run your favorite benchmark and send us your results.
• Benchmarks: if you think you have written an interesting piece of code that can be used as a Linux benchmark, we can include it for download from the LBP site.
• Documentation: documentation on existing benchmarks and benchmarking procedures is always welcome.
• Your opinion counts: if you just want to discuss an interesting issue related to Linux benchmarking, subscribe to the mailing list or contact any one of us.

You are invited to join the Linux Benchmarking Project team!