Release 0.9.0 of perfbase available

[Joachim Worringen]

The release 0.9.0 is now available for download at http://perfbase.tigris.org 
(or directly from the subversion repository).

This release incorporates a large number of changes (both improvements and some
bug fixes). For a full listing, see the file CHANGES in the distribution. The
most notable changes are:
- Unlimited input file size as the files are no longer read into memory completely.
- Added new example that process 'iozone' output (examples/iozone)
- Added new example that performs "automatic" performance comparison for results
of the IMB (aka PMB) benchmark and for results of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks
(NPB) (examples/auto_compare)
- Performance improvement of queries by avoiding redundant SQL operations.
- Multi-line text input is now supported.
- New output format 'XML' stores data in XML.
- Improved handling of parameter sweep in operators, combiners and outputs.
- 3D-plots with gnuplot are now possible (see examples/iozone and examples/PMB)
- New database format to improve performance. Existing experiments can easily be
upgraded with the "check" command.
- Adapted to PostreSQL 8.1 (now works with 7.4.x and later).

Thanks to all users and contributors!

  Joachim Worringen

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[James Cownie]

Joachim,

Do you by any chance have a perfbase setup for dealing with the SPEC
benchmarks ?

Thanks

-- Jim

James Cownie <james.h.cownie@...>
SSG/DPD/ITL
Tel: [phone]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joachim Worringen [mailto:joachim@...]
> Sent: 26 May 2006 12:55
> To: users@...; announce@...
> Subject: [perfbase-users] Release 0.9.0 of perfbase available
>
>
> The release 0.9.0 is now available for download at
> http://perfbase.tigris.org
> (or directly from the subversion repository).
>
> This release incorporates a large number of changes (both improvements

and
> some
> bug fixes). For a full listing, see the file CHANGES in the
distribution.
> The
> most notable changes are:
> - Unlimited input file size as the files are no longer read into
memory
> completely.
> - Added new example that process 'iozone' output (examples/iozone)
> - Added new example that performs "automatic" performance comparison
for
> results
> of the IMB (aka PMB) benchmark and for results of the NAS Parallel
> Benchmarks
> (NPB) (examples/auto_compare)
> - Performance improvement of queries by avoiding redundant SQL
operations.

> - Multi-line text input is now supported.
> - New output format 'XML' stores data in XML.
> - Improved handling of parameter sweep in operators, combiners and
> outputs.
> - 3D-plots with gnuplot are now possible (see examples/iozone and
> examples/PMB)
> - New database format to improve performance. Existing experiments can
> easily be
> upgraded with the "check" command.
> - Adapted to PostreSQL 8.1 (now works with 7.4.x and later).
>
> Thanks to all users and contributors!
>
>   Joachim Worringen
>
> --
> Joachim Worringen - NEC C&C research lab St.Augustin
> fon +49-2241-9252.20 - fax .99 - http://www.ccrl-nece.de
>
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[Joachim Worringen]

Cownie, James H wrote:
> Joachim,
>
> Do you by any chance have a perfbase setup for dealing with the SPEC
> benchmarks ?

This would of course be (another) perfect application for perfbase, but I
neither have the SPEC benchmarks nor their output.

It's really not hard to set up such an experiment if you look at the examples
like NPB. If you post some of the SPEC output files, I could probably create a
basic SPEC example. But typically, you'll need to add some more parameters
specific to your environment and requirements.

  Joachim

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