On Wednesday April 14 2010 14:32:42 Marie Rognes wrote: > Anders Logg wrote: > > The DOLFIN benchbot is now up and running. Thanks Johannes for a good > > effort. > > This looks awesome!
++ Johan > -- > Marie > > > The benchbot runs the set of benchmarks once every night and reports > > > > the results here: > > http://www.fenics.org/bench/ > > > > Johannes has installed a range of old DOLFIN versions and backported > > the benchmarks to run on those versions. > > > > The benchbot runs all executables named 'bench' found under the bench > > directory in DOLFIN. I have added an initial set of benchmarks but > > some work remains. What needs to happen now is > > > > 1. We finalize on a good set of benchmarks. Some obvious things (like > > assembly over different forms) are missing, and the other benchmarks > > need to be scaled properly. For example, what is an appropriate > > running time to aim for? 1s? 10s? 30s? 1min? The benchmarks that are > > there now are very small and run fast (which was useful when we wrote > > the scripts). > > > > 2. Johannes backports those to earlier version where possible. > > > > Since (2) involves some manual work, the benchmarks need to be > > finalized so we don't change them again tomorrow (or next year). We > > can always add new (and then the benchbot will start recording new > > results as they appear) but changing existing benchmarks will > > invalidate all data built up by the benchbot. > > > > Please have a look inside the bench directory and comment on what > > needs to be done (or fix it). > > > > Johannes, could you fill us in on exactly what hardware/operating > > system the benchbot is running on? It would also be good to add this > > information to the web page. > > > > -- > > Anders > > > > PS: The benchbot page is not themed at all (in addition to the theming > > of fenics.org being completely broken at the moment as a result of the > > Simula IT department being away on a "seminar"), but it will be nicely > > themed in the near future. Harish is working on a new design for the > > FEniCS web pages and I can promise it will look good. Very good. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
