[Benchmarking] Presentation abstract and benchmark contents

[Jeff McKenna]

As Daniel mentioned I seemed to have missed this abstract discussion 
while in transit - Paul which names/presenters did you put down for this 
abstract?

(I assumed the submission deadline was moved to June 8th)

-jeff




Paul Ramsey wrote:
> According to the web site, the deadline is June 1, so I submitted
> right away just to be on the safe side. We can edit the abstract
> later. I submitted the version I edited:
> 
> This is the latest installment in an annual series of benchmarks and
> presentations that pit open source and other web mapping servers
> against one another in a suite of performance tests.  The presentation
> seeks to find out the optimal software configurations
> and to compare the performance in different real world use cases, such
> as large data handling, OSM like rendering, large raster serving and
> - Hide quoted text -
> WFS scalability.  MapServer and Geoserver will be compared, as well as
> different back-end data sources, such as PostGIS and Shapefiles.
> 
> [Note to reviewers, other servers may also be added to the test,
> pending participation by community members.]
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Andrea Aime <aaime at opengeo.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I believe the most urgent thing we need to do, as far as the
>> presentation is concerned, is to file an abstract of it.
>> The deadline is June 8, and if we don't have the presentation
>> accepted, there is no much else to discuss, at least for FOSS4G.
>>
>> We need an abstract, and we need a set of presenters that will be
>> there.
>>
>> For GeoServer, I would be the one. Who's going to put his name
>> on the presentation for the MapServer side? What about MapGuide or
>> DeeGree, do we have anyone? (which reminds me, we should invite
>> from the other sides as well... maybe we should send a mail on
>> osgeo-discuss).
>>
>> Abstract wise, I'm not a native english speaker, so someone else
>> will certainly do better, but here is an attempt:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Title:
>> Comparing the Performance of OGC web services
>>
>> Abstract:
>> This is the third installment of a series of presentations that
>> compared the performance of Web Map Service at
>> given at FOSS4G 2007 and FOSS4G 2008.
>> The presentation seeks to find out the optimal software configurations
>> and to compare the performance in different real world use cases, such
>> as large data handling, OSM like rendering, large raster serving and
>> WFS scalability.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Of course the abstract somehow sets the contents of the presentation.
>> What will we do this year? I would say, a bit of what was done
>> last year so that we can compare with last year results, and something
>> new to keep people entertained.
>>
>> I would suggest:
>> - rendering the usual tiger_texas layer over shapefile and postgis.
>>  Big chunky layer with very simple style. Maybe this year we should
>>  give up doing non antialised output... or do you think it's still
>>  relevant?
>> - kill the states thematic map and go for OSM like rendering of a
>>  city using OSM data, using shapes and external symbols as needed
>> - raster wise, maybe again MrSid data, so that we can see MapServer
>>  progress in that area, and a big(-ish) mosaic of GeoTiff tiles?
>>  Maybe we can get some of that climatic change data in shape for
>>  the latter.
>> - wfs wise, maybe a test with an assortment of spatial and attribute
>>  filters against a postgis database that has indexes (to see how
>>  well they are used?)
>>
>> Anything else you might want to test out? I would leave tile
>> cache out this year, as the comparison between direct and tile
>> cached output has been made last year already, so I think there
>> is one free slot for another benchmark/topic.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>