[Benchmarking] Hardware Specs added to Wiki

[Zac Spitzer]

I agree, this is a foss4g benchmark which has been opened up to commercial
companies. Stump up or be quiet IMHO

A few disks is nothing compared to a day of marketing budget

#justsaying

On 23 Jun 2010 23:59, "Andrea Aime" <aaime at opengeo.org> wrote:
Dimitri Monie ha scritto:


>
> Andrea,
>
> I am a bit surprised by the sizing considerations and especially by
> the money iss...
Welcome to the world of open source, where everybody is welcome
to contribute but nobody is forced to.

If you are seeing this benchmarking as something in which one side
provides the infrastructure and setup and whatever else is necessary
and you just run the benchmarks, well, you'll be quite disappointed.

There are 8 teams working on this benchmarking, I expect everybody
to contribute in some way, be it providing data, tools, server
machine administration time and whatnot.
Some do provide hardware, and we have to be grateful they provide
anything at all. The benchmark has been run on a notebook
in the past, because that was all I could afford to bring
to the table (FOSS4G 2008).

So my reaction is, if you don't think the machines Mike generously
offered are not enough, provide better ones, no one is stopping
you. Or see if the participants are up to loan some more powerful
servers for a few months sharing the cost of the loan, or
if you have relationships with hardware providers, see if they
can give us some machines for a few months.

I don't believe the conference organization has put aside any
money for this presentation, and honestly, I would not expect
it to given the nature of the conference.



Cheers
Andrea



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