Hi, I was thinking about an optimization problem today an had an idea of a benchmarking network. So I thought I'd pass it your way to determine it's usefulness and if deemed useful its feasibility.
So, the idea is simply to have a distributed computing network that can be used to run benchmarks. Some benefits as I can see. * GNOME runs on a wide variety of platforms with an equally wide variety of performance characteristics. This could be a way to get data from all of those platforms. * Some benchmarks will have a large number of candidate solutions. This network would be a way to distribute the benchmarking load to get quicker results. * People without the skills needed to contribute with patches could still find a way to help out by simply running a benchmarking server. * This could be a feasible way of applying genetic algorithms to some optimization problems. What do you think? Regards, John Nilsson _______________________________________________ Performance-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list
