[Avrora] Call for benchmarks

[John Regehr]

Elias- Have you looked in tinyos-2.x-contrib?  This is a CVS repository 
maintained in parallel with the regular TiynOS 2 tree.  There's a lot of 
stuff in there.

Ben- I'd start with a moderately complex TinyOS application like MViz or 
MultihopOsciloscope.  Both are in tinyos-2.x/apps.  Then it should be easy 
to come up with some scenarios that stress different aspects of a Java 
implementation.  For example:

- single node vs. largish grid network
- bare simualation vs. lots of monitors, watches, etc.

John Regehr



On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Elias Ekonomou wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> If you find anyone with a real world large-scale sensor network application 
> please forward me his contact information. I've made a security framework for 
> TinyOS and I'm looking for a large real world application to demonstrate its 
> scalability/performance for real applications. So far I've only been running 
> stress-tests which I personally designed and are not very connected with 
> reality. I've been searching for someone who would have an open source 
> application for a large network in vain.
>
>
> Elias
>
>
>
> Ben L. Titzer wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I have been talking to the DaCapo group about getting Avrora included as a 
>> pure-Java benchmark for VM performance in the next release of the DaCapo 
>> benchmarks. Avrora has a number of interesting properties (other than being 
>> my brainchild :-)) that make it a unique, real-world testcase to study and 
>> improve Java VM performance.
>> 
>> The trouble is, being a simulator, Avrora's dynamic behavior can vary a 
>> huge amount depending on the input program(s), the communication 
>> characteristics, and the instrumentation attached.
>> 
>> I would like your help in identifying a series of input programs and 
>> simulation scenarios that stress Avrora, particularly in highly 
>> multi-threaded execution, such as a large sensor network simulation.
>> 
>> What kinds of apps are you guys running that do non-trivial communication 
>> and computation? Having been out of the WSN community for a while, I am 
>> little behind. What TinyOS example apps are good showcases (and also work 
>> in Avrora)?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.
>> If you reply you get a cookie.
>> 
>> -B
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