Pathload is a tool that can estimate the available bandwidth of network
paths.
Naarad is a framework for performance analysis & rating of sharded &
stateful services.
Zopkio is a test framework built to support at scale performance and
functional testing.
Randomio is a multithreaded disk i/o microbenchmark. It
requires O_DIRECT, pread/pwrite, and pthreads.
Web Polygraph is a benchmarking tool for Web proxies. Polygraph
distribution includes a high-performance client and server simulators.
The simulators create a stream of HTTP requests that can be routed through
a Web proxy. Studying proxy performance under various [stress] conditions is
essential for performance tuning, evaluation of new algorithms, analysis of
hardware configurations, and comparing available proxy products.
CD-HIT is a very widely used program for clustering and comparing protein or
nucleotide sequences.
Io_lib is a library of file reading and writing code to provide a
general purpose trace file (and Experiment File) reading interface.
The programmer simply calls the (eg) read_reading to create a "Read"
C structure with the data loaded into memory. It has been compiled
and tested on a variety of Unix systems, MacOS X and MS Windows.
p5-Bio-Graphics is a simple GD-based renderer (diagram drawer)
for DNA and protein sequences.
pyfasta is a python module for fast, memory-efficient, pythonic
access to fasta sequence files.
python-nexus is a generic nexus (phylogenetics) file format(.nex, .trees)
reader for python.