<p>I agree, this is a foss4g benchmark which has been opened up to commercial companies. Stump up or be quiet IMHO</p>
<p>A few disks is nothing compared to a day of marketing budget</p>
<p>#justsaying</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On 23 Jun 2010 23:59, "Andrea Aime" <<a href="mailto:aaime@opengeo.org">aaime@opengeo.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">Dimitri Monie ha scritto:<p><font color="#500050"><br>
><br>> Andrea,<br>><br>> I am a bit surprised by the sizing considerations and especially by<br>> the money iss...</font></p>
Welcome to the world of open source, where everybody is welcome<br>
to contribute but nobody is forced to.<br>
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If you are seeing this benchmarking as something in which one side<br>
provides the infrastructure and setup and whatever else is necessary<br>
and you just run the benchmarks, well, you'll be quite disappointed.<br>
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There are 8 teams working on this benchmarking, I expect everybody<br>
to contribute in some way, be it providing data, tools, server<br>
machine administration time and whatnot.<br>
Some do provide hardware, and we have to be grateful they provide<br>
anything at all. The benchmark has been run on a notebook<br>
in the past, because that was all I could afford to bring<br>
to the table (FOSS4G 2008).<br>
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So my reaction is, if you don't think the machines Mike generously<br>
offered are not enough, provide better ones, no one is stopping<br>
you. Or see if the participants are up to loan some more powerful<br>
servers for a few months sharing the cost of the loan, or<br>
if you have relationships with hardware providers, see if they<br>
can give us some machines for a few months.<br>
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I don't believe the conference organization has put aside any<br>
money for this presentation, and honestly, I would not expect<br>
it to given the nature of the conference.<p><font color="#500050"><br><br>Cheers<br>Andrea<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Andrea Aime<br>OpenGeo - <a href="http://opengeo.org">http://opengeo.org</a><br>Expert service straight from the dev...</font></p>
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