[Benchmarking] Some new raster benchmarks

[Chris Tweedie]

Hi Jeff,

Yes I was aware of what happened pre-2009. Shawn was involved in some
web chats but it seemed our involvement came too late with the platform,
tests and other items already confirmed. Shawn was very keen to include
some advanced raster workflows but was flat out rejected in very
"succinct" language I believe.

The event itself was a month before our major 2010 release so timing was
also an issue. Shawn as the PM rightly made the call to pull out before
we really were ever involved. 

As for the blog, that's his personal space much like mine which needs to
be treated as such.

What does boggle my mind is why ERDAS is hit from all sides on this and
yet ESRI got off scot-free? To even suggest that ERDAS and ESRI were at
the same level of involvement is a lie. ESRI had physically configured
ArcGIS Server on the machine, were running performance tests and then
pulled out a few weeks before due to resourcing. I guess a bad analogy
would be ESRI pulling out of the race a meter from the finish line while
ERDAS were never even on the track let alone the gate!

Will we participate in Barcelona? I have no idea ... its not my call.
Would I like us to? Yeah I would, but its pretty clear from my POV that
the slate needs to be wiped clean and things start fresh for next year
so all this can be left behind us.

Chris


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:benchmarking-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
Sent: Monday, 14 December 2009 10:25 PM
To: Performance testing of OSGeo and other web service engines.
Subject: Re: [Benchmarking] Some new raster benchmarks

Hello Chris,

Excellent to see Erdas back in the benchmarking game.  For the 2009 
exercise, (you might not be aware of this) I was talking with Shawn 
Owston from the Erdas Apollo team, and he seemed interested in 
participating; however after not hearing from Erdas for a while he 
decided to publicly put down the exercise, blasting the participants in 
a public blog instead[1], yet never contacted the benchmarking 
organizers or email list.  It's unfortunate and I'm hoping we can all 
put that experience behind us.

We would be more than happy to have a full commitment from Erdas for the

2010 exercise.  You can find some initial notes on the 2010 exercise at 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010 Please let me know if Erdas

is willing to participate in the 2010 exercise, the more participants 
the better! :)

thanks.

-jeff

[1] 
http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/09/geospatial-performance-benchmarks.htm
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-- 
Jeff McKenna
Director, Gateway Geomatics
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/




Chris Tweedie wrote:
> Hi all,
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> If you can't wait for the next Foss4g shootout, here are some interim 
> benchmarks to spur some discussion and hopefully expand the number of 
> tests next year.
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http://blog.webmapper.com.au/2009/12/11/raster-image-serving-benchmarks/
> 
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> 
> I've got quite a few more tests to publish when I have a bit of time. 
> Certainly some interesting results for all servers
> 
>  
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