Yesterday we started the discussion on what the next benchmark should be. We have a few ideas but nothing certain on what we will do so again we welcome ideas on what everyone would like to see.

We also had some talk about smaller monthly competitions that would include a broader range of participants. I think this would interest a lot of people, however since we would not be pushing our systems to the xtreme the prizes will obviously be smaller and these contests would more than...

I thought it would be a neat idea to blog about being an Editor here on OCN. Since I am a Benchmarking Editor I can only cover that, but I hope it will be interesting none the less.

As most of you know I help run the Benchmarking contests. That usually involves a couple months of discussing different ideas for the contests long before it actually takes place. Then we have to get approval for the prizes for the contest (of which admin is VERY generous) and then setup the structure...