Quick Year-End Update On Phoromatic / LinuxBenchmarking.com
As explained in the walk-through, LinuxBenchmarking.com is "a collection of 32 systems running various upstream benchmarks on a daily basis in a fully automated manner. The daily upstream benchmarking ranges from the Linux kernel Git to Mesa to Arch/Antergos Linux to LLVM/Clang."
The systems are still up and running and all sorts of tests are running daily. Originally I planned to have the public result tracker/viewer opened up by the end of this month, but it looks like it will still take a week or two. There's still a bit of code that needs to be done for getting the tracker UI all nice and being fully useful for analyzing the collected test data, among other tweaks that will come with Phoromatic, which is built into the Phoronix Test Suite code-base. The most pressing changes for the initial public roll-out will hopefully be ready in early-to-mid January.
Complicating things was my home/office having the furnace die and still waiting to get that replaced to get heating restored in the middle of winter, among other time consuming headaches to deal with in ending the year on an unfortunate sour note. With the efficiency of modern AMD and Intel hardware, 32+ systems [along with the many other Phoronix systems not part of this test farm] running is not a viable heating source, but at least those heating issues will be taken care of on Friday. With these systems being pounded a lot, a few systems have also already encountered hardware issues with some components needing to be replaced. There's also already been three counts of EXT4 file-system corruption that interfered with some tests temporarily.
Anyhow, stay tuned for more in January and if you're not familiar with the new test farm that's powered by the Phoronix Test Suite and Phoromatic, visit LinuxBenchmarking.com.
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