[Benchmarking] [EXTERNAL] Who shot the shootout?

thomas bonfort thomas.bonfort at gmail.com
Wed Sep 4 03:27:49 PDT 2013


Arnulf,
I completely concur with you, and for me this is probably also one of
the reasons the exercise did not gain traction this year ( for me it
sure played a role, c.f. also an email from me to this list after the
Denver shootout proposing we stray away from WMS and time-consuming
styling setups and instead focus on the time it takes to generate a
set of tiles). That said, replacing the current presentation with
seemingly similar oriented presentations, even more so that have not
been vetted by the actual server teams, is not a suitable substitute.

regards,
Thomas

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Arnulf Christl
<arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net> wrote:
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> Thomas,
> I concur, this was the scope of the WMS shootout so far. By now I am
> pretty sure that it is actually a god thing the the shootout was shot. I
> never liked it too much. Too limited in scope and way too unflexible to
> reflect the reality out there. Every data has its own specifics. The
> more performance one needs the more highly specific fine tuning is
> necessary. Cloud infrastructures impose completely new issues on admins.
> So the way we did benchmarking so far was great - but maybe its not the
> end of what we can do (see another mail later).
>
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
>
> On 04.09.2013 11:47, thomas bonfort wrote:
>> The benchmarking exercise is about putting different teams on a common
>> testcase to push each engine to its limits, not the benchmark of X vs.
>> Y done by team X.
>>
>> my 2c.
>> thomas
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Pirmin Kalberer <pi_ml at sourcepole.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 16.34:04 schrieb Arnulf Christl:
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>>>> Mike, Bart,
>>>> thanks for the feedback and link.
>>>>
>>>> Michael Billmire,
>>>> will you be attending the FOSS4G conference in Nottingham? Would you be
>>>> happy to give a short summary of the talk you gave at FOSS4G NA? If not
>>>> would you be comfortable if I presented a short summary of your results?
>>>> - From the mail [1] it seems like you have a presentation at the ready? I
>>>> like that you also had a look into usability and quality.
>>>
>>> For filling the conference slot, Marco could translate his FOSSGIS presentation
>>> [1] doing the FOSS4G benchmark with Swiss cadastral vector data and rasters.
>>> He could shorten it to 10-15' to leave room for an other short presentation.
>>>
>>> [1] http://sourcepole.com/2013/6/17/fossgis-2013-performance-optimised-wms-
>>> services-with-qgis-server
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Pirmin
>>>
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