Blogbench is a portable filesystem benchmark that tries to reproduce the
load of a real-world busy file server.
It stresses the filesystem with multiple threads performing random reads,
writes and rewrites in order to get a realistic idea of the scalability
and the concurrency a system can handle.
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.
CD-HIT is a very widely used program for clustering and comparing protein or
nucleotide sequences.
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.
TkGate is a event driven digital circuit simulator with a tcl/tk-based
graphical editor. TkGate supports a wide range of primitive circuit elements as
well as user-defined modules for hierarchical design.
The distribution comes with a number of tutorial and example circuits.