"will serve as benchmark" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used when discussing something that will be used as a standard or reference point for comparison. Example: The new product's success in the market will serve as a benchmark for future product launches.
It is expected that the numerical results presented herein will serve as benchmark in future.
These derived fundamental solutions will serve as benchmark results for modeling some inhomogeneous materials.
Our results provide an understanding of complex twin jet coupling and will serve as benchmark data for validating computational models.
Other processes may be investigated through different laboratory experiments which will serve as benchmark for numerical codes validation.
Model (m_{4}), being a more general expression than the previous ones, tends to provide a better fit at the expense of more parameters, and will serve as benchmark for the comparison between the rest of the models.
The survival outcomes in our study will serve as benchmark for these studies.
It is hoped that they will serve as benchmarks.
The results that are presented here will serve as benchmarks for future related work.
These datasets will serve as benchmarks for future research on data mining methods for CGH data.
The agreement, which will serve as a benchmark for other regions, will give workers an effective pay raise of 1.5 percent a year through mid-2012, the lowest increase in 30 years, according to calculations by economists at Royal Bank of Scotland in London.
The information collected will help inform the park's ambitious biodiversity study, a census of the park's flora and fauna, begun in 1985, which will serve as the benchmark for judging future success, said Mr. Robbins.
