[LITMUS^RT] Fwd: [litmus-rt] Experiment scripts

[James H. Anderson]

Thanks, Jonathan!

-Jim

On 4/12/2013 5:33 PM, Glenn Elliott wrote:
> Jonathan!  You didn't do yourself justice with your explanation!
>
> Jonathan's tool suite can:
> 1) Automated overhead measurement: (step 1)  Buy a new system.  (step 
> 2) Install Litmus and Jonathan's tools.  (step 3) Run a script with 
> default parameters.  (step 4) A while later, you get overheads.
> 2) Automated Litmus testing.  You give the scripts a few parameters, 
> and it puts the various Litmus schedulers through their paces.
> 3) Framework for repeatable experiments.  If you want to make your 
> experiments repeatable for others, you can give them a few input files 
> and parameters.  The scripts do the rest.
>
> -Glenn
>
> On Apr 12, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Jonathan Herman <hermanjl at cs.unc.edu 
> <mailto:hermanjl at cs.unc.edu>> wrote:
>
>> Running experiments in LITMUS was hard for me to figure out. I 
>> created a repository of experiment scripts for my successors at UNC 
>> to make their lives easier. These are based off the scripts used by 
>> Chris and I in our paper submissions. I made them as user-friendly as 
>> possible, so that I will get as few emails as possible. I've also 
>> integrated a few ideas from other people at UNC, included instant 
>> messaging (Mac) when an experiment completes, and emails (Glenn) when 
>> all experiments complete.
>>
>> The scripts can be found here:
>> https://github.com/hermanjl/experiment-scripts
>>
>> I think it would be cool if a repository like this was actively 
>> maintained. Anyone want to take mine? Currently, it is very difficult 
>> for casual readers to re-create the experiments presented in our 
>> papers. It's also too hard to quickly test, debug, and evaluate 
>> changes to Litmus, so people just don't do it.
>>
>> P.S. Sorry for sending the other email twice.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Herman
>> Department of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Herman
>> Department of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill
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