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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
> 
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