[Benchmarking] abstract for FOSS4G

[Jeff McKenna]

Great, thanks Andrea and Dane.  I've submitted the abstract.

-jeff



Andrea Aime wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> With the deadline for abstracts approaching (15 April), we should 
>> submit an abstract for the performance shootout.  Looking at 
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010 we have teams from 
>> GeoServer, MapServer, and Mapnik committed as of now, so here is an 
>> updated abstract:
>>
>> ************
>> Title: Web Mapping Performance Shoot-out
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>>
>> Abstract
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>>
>> 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, which might include 
>> handling large datasets, Open Street Map (OSM) rendering, and 
>> attribute labeling. At the minimum, MapServer, GeoServer, and MapNik 
>> will be compared, as well as different back-end data sources, such as 
>> PostGIS and Shapefiles. [Other Web mapping servers may also be added 
>> to the exercise, pending participation by their community members]
>>
>> Presenters: Andrea Aime and Jeff McKenna
>> ************
>>
>> Andrea, are you willing to do the presentation with me again?  If so I 
>> can submit this abstract.
> 
> I'm game, go ahead :-)
>