First, I want to apologize, I just got Internet access while at FOSS4G, so I couldn't provide good coverage so far... But don't worry, I'll make sure you get all the most important announcements and news, probably some time next week. At least for the elements other Slashgeo editors won't have already shared.
Meanwhile, here's my notes and the results of the famous WMS Shoutout, which just ended minutes ago.
- WMS benchmarking, 8 teams this year instead of the usual 2.
- This year with Cardcorp, GeognoSIS, Constellation-SDI, ERDAS APOLLO, GeoServer, - Mapnik, MapServer, Oracle MapViewer, QGIS MapServer.
- Both open source and proprietary solutions compared with the same datasets, the same WMS requests, same output formats, etc.
- Testing 18 gigs of vector data.
- Testing 120 gigs of raster data.
- Using real Spain data.
- From 1 to 64 parallel clients requests (2152 requests total).
- Main winners are the users, because we are the ones who will benefit from the improvements done to the WMS servers (one rule of the Shootout is that modifications must become available to the users, I guess this also applies to proprietary software competitors).
- This year, benchmark includes bottlenecks from CPU, disk access, network access and remote database access.
- If you wonder, these guys really went deep in the benchmarking analysis (such as OS-level caching), take a look at the slides. They do try to do a serious benchmarking comparison.
- There was serious differences in servers which were disk-bound vs disk-unbounded (CPU-bound).
