dolfin team mailing list archive

[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The DOLFIN benchbot is now up and running. Thanks Johannes for a good
> effort.
>
> 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?

Yes, the processor is an Intel Xeon E5504 with 4 cores running at 2
GHz and it has 6 GB memory available. The operating system is
currently Ubuntu Karmic Koala 64 bit, however, the plan was to upgrade
to the upcoming Lucid Lynx LTS when it is released (in the end of
April).

> It would also be good to add this
> information to the web page.

Yes, I will do that once I get all the details.

Johannes

> --
> 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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