Benchmark Performance Database

The BRL-CAD Benchmark Suite is a system performance analysis benchmark that tests the performance of a given system's CPU, memory, cache coherency, kernel context switching, and compiler optimization capabilities. The benchmark provides a linearly comparable metric of overall system performance that may be used to quantitatively evaluate the relative performance of a given system, particular compilers, compilation options, and hardware architecture designs. This performance test is based on a real-world CPU intensive application of ray-tracing, providing a reliable metric of actual system performance that may be compared across more than two decades of computing.

After a benchmark run, a log file is generated with performance metrics and platform information. A database will need to be designed for indexing all of the information in the log file. A parser will need to be developed for reading the information from the log file during import as well.

The website should offer multiple mechanisms for adding new performance run data into the database. The website should provide multiple graphical and non-graphical visualizations of aggregate performance data (i.e., graphs, charts, tables, etc).

References

• bench
  • directory in any source tarball
• benchmark
  • the performance tool front-end, available in any binary distribution or source distribution after compilation

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Requirements

• Ability to run shell scripts
• Ability to navigate a UNIX/Linux command-prompt
• Familiarity with web development technologies

Past Efforts

• GSoC14
• GSoC12