User:Ankeshanand/GSoC14/logs

Development Logs

Project Details

Project Name	Benchmark Performance Database
Project Sudent	Ankesh Anand
IRC(nick)	ankesh11
Google-Melange username	ankeshanand1994
Phone Number	+91 8348522098

Introduction

This page will contain weekly targets and Updates about the work done.

Community Bonding Period

(23rd April to 18th May)

• Got familiar with the modules and database schema from previous repository.

• Had a discussion with H.S. Rai(Project Mentor) about the infrastructure to be used. We settled on Django as a web framework for the project.

• Learnt Django by reading through books and building a couple of small applications with it.

• Set up the development repository on Github.

• Discussed about the deployment options on BRL-CAD servers. It already has Python and MySQL support, and since we manage it ourselves, it would be easy install new packages on it.

• Fixed a few bugs to get the database and parser portions fully working. The benchmark logs can now be parsed and indexed into the database from the command line.

• Built a Django app with jquery to support file uploads that let's users(Link to the code is here):
  • Upload Benchmark logs
  • Does validation checks
  • allows the admin to view a list of files.

Development Phase

Week 1

• 19th May(Monday): Started working on the plots app. Integrated the legacy database from previous repo with the models in the plots app.

• 20th May(Tuesday):' Continued the work with plots app, integrated both the databases(fileupload and benchmark) to a single database. Read the Django documentation on views and templates to refresh and understand a few details. Updated url mappings, and a simple admin interface for plots app.

• 21st May(Wednesday): I went through the tutorials on Highcharts and emulated a few examples. Created simple bar and line charts to understand the concept of series, axes and how the data is loaded via AJAX.

• 22nd May(Thursday): I decided to JSON as the data source for plots. This would require me to pass JSOn objects from view to templates. I went through the json module of python, particularly json.dumps and json.encode functions which will help in parsing JSON. I also thought about the types of plots I could generate from our app.

• 23rd May(Friday): Brainstormed over the visualizations I should work on, referred to suryajith's work on this and had a look at Openbenchmarking.org. After a discussion on the mailing list, we were able to arrive at a preliminary set of plots I should work on. Fixed a bug in the database connection file. Also got in touch with Sean regarding a server account.

• 24th May(Saturday): Half day of work. I created some charts using AJAX and a JSON file with initial data with the Highcharts library, had a few hiccups along the way. Next step is to refine these prototypes and integrate with the Django application.