The STAC Benchmark Council™ is an organization of leading financial institutions and technology vendors that specifies standard ways to assess technologies used in the financial markets. The Council focuses on an expanding range of big-compute, big-data, and low-latency use cases. Council members utilize results and detailed configuration information from STAC Benchmarks™ to understand the capabilities of new technologies, while using standards-based STAC Test Harnesses™ to rapidly execute STAC Benchmarks in their own labs.