Bioinformatics.org is releasing the full version 3 of the BBS system. You can see the full announcement on the home page in the news section. The Bioinformatics Benchmark System is an attempt to build a reasonable testing framework, tests, and data, to enable end users and vendors to probe the performance of their systems. What they are trying to do is to create a framework for testing, and a core set of tests that all may download and use to probe specific elements of systems performance. Moreover, the source to these tests are available under GPL, and are hosted on Bioinformatics.org and Scalable Informatics LLC. The idea is to enable end users, consumers, systems developers, and others to easily build and use meaningful tests for measurement and tuning purposes.