Re: VisAD Performance Benchmarks

• To: Ricardo Mantilla <ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: VisAD Performance Benchmarks
• From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:34:55 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Ricardo,

> Has anyone developed some standardized VisAD benchmark?  This could help the
> VisAD community to select the best JVM-Java3D combination for different
> platforms.

I don't know of any published VisAD benchmarks. However, both
the IDV and VisBio projects have used informal benchmarks in
order to measure improvements.

> This community has grown stronger and I am pretty sure everyone will be
> interested in testing their machines perfomance.  A test like this will also
> help to diagnose bugs specific for different hadware-software combinations.

There is a set of tests that I run before every release to
the VisAD ftp server, documented at:

  http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/test.txt

Cheers,
Bill

• References:
  • VisAD Performance Benchmarks
    • From: Ricardo Mantilla