Performance Tracker project update

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Erik Cederstrand wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
>> 
>> This looks really exciting!
>> 
>> Do you plan to add a way so that people can submit performance data? 
>> I.e., if I set up my own test box and want to submit a result once a week 
>> for that, will there be a way for me to get set up with a 
>> username/password, submit configuration information, and then automatically 
>> submit test result datapoints?  Especially if I can specify both the X and 
>> Y coordinates so that I can backdate results should I go back and generate 
>> test results for old kernels?
>
> The website and benchmarking slave talk to a PostgreSQL database. It's 
> definitely possible and part of the design to have multiple computers 
> participating in a distributed fashion, although it's also possible to run 
> the setup locally and privately for more ad-hoc testing purposes.

Sounds good.

> I think it's best if participating machines supply data regularly for an 
> extended period of time. Single or infrequent data points for a specific 
> configuration don't make much sense. We need to compare apples to apples.

Yes -- I was mostly thinking about backdating in order to play "catchup" when 
a new benchmark is introduced.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge