User:Stattrav/GSoC2012 log

22 August 2012

• Tried running the bottle app on multi-threaded and asynchronous servers. Tested out Tornado. Currently running on python-paste

20 August 2012

• Documentation

17-19 August 2012

• Rolled out the crude website which is hosted at http://88.198.223.105:8080/
• Upload page working on the localhost but buggy on the VPS
• Documentation
• Full of bugs, project immature

15-16 August 2012

• Added views for the plots and configured the output to be presented via the template in the view
• Made changes to existing folder structure for the Bottle app to run
• Configured and made a run_server.py script
• Source is at https://bitbucket.org/suryajith/benchmark/src
• Awaiting Dr.Rai's perusal of the patches.

12-14 August 2012

• Necessary changes in the db structure for the data needed for graphs
• Necessary changes to the Parser script
• Implemented
  • Absolute Performance vs Reference images over various architectures
  • Average Performance vs Architectures
  • Average Performance per CPU MHz vs Architectures
  • Absolute Performance vs CPU over various architectures
  • Absolute Performance vs CPU over various images for specific architecture
• Forms for comparision between various architectures
• Three modes of data displayed : text, table, graph
• Below are some examples of the graphs generated from the data in the database

8-11 August 2012

• MVC framework using bottle
• Developed controllers for upload and basic charting libraries
• Charting libraries : Wrapper over the GCharts by generating and thus embedding the js code

1-6 August 2012

• More failed attempts at working with mediawiki

28-29 July 2012

• Implemented a custom form renderer.
• Results to be integrated.

21 July 2012

• Realized that simpleforms do not help much and have begun writing the forms natively in PHP.

20 July 2012

• Still figuring out the forms and the implementation of the actions

17-18 July 2012

• Playing around with the Simple forms extension. Naive html forms wouldn't help as the action can't be hard coded.
• It has some issues with mediawiki 1.20(alpha) due to some deprecations in the mediawiki codebase but figured out a few of them.

11-12 July 2012

• Upload form on the special page.
• Read up on Google charts embedding. Thoughts on the features required for the frontend.

9-10 July 2012

• Documentation and fixing the flow. logging cleanup.
• Frontend

5 July 2012

• Read up the forms implementation for the frontend of mediawiki extension

3 July 2012

• Web API set up. Mail has been sent to the mailing list asking folks to submit the logs through the API and mail.
• Documentation, implement logging through out.
• Read up about frontend forms for upload and data request.
• The frontend is being setup through a special page which is the view part of the mediawiki extension.

1 July 2012

• Setting the demo server up. It is hosted at http://88.198.223.105 and that is being configured now for the demo purposes.
• Documentation of the work

30 Jun 2012

• Integrating all the things worked on. Testing the process.