[Benchmarking] 2013 Shootout?

[Jeff McKenna]

Here is an initial abstract draft.  Changes welcome:

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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, rendering tiles, and attribute labeling. At the
minimum, deegree, Cadcorp, and MapServer will be compared, as well as
different back-end data sources, such the Ordnance Survey OpenData
vector and raster products. [Other Web mapping servers may also be added
to the exercise, pending participation by their community members]

Presenters: Arnulf Christl
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-jeff