Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Benchmark GUI First Look

2014-07-11 Thread Namik Karovic
> > I'd consider the median to provide a more reliable indicator for system > performance here. > I'd rather use the median instead of the averge, indeed. Very well then. Median it is. Sure it can. Not in terms of data, but in terms of eating CPU cycles while > the benchmark thread is runnin

Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Benchmark GUI First Look

2014-07-11 Thread Philippe Tillet
Hi Namik, Good job! It all looks very appealing. I don't have much to say. Just a few comments: -> I'd rather use the median instead of the averge, indeed. -> As for the latency in the expert section, it would be great to also have an execution time vs size plot, in order to show until when the l

Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Benchmark GUI First Look

2014-07-11 Thread Karl Rupp
Hey, > (...) > > I'll skip the pause functionality then. Ok :-) > Consider using the median rather than the average. In some cases one > can observe infrequent outliers, which would distort the average. > > Would the median value really be a good choice to represent all > benchmark s

Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Benchmark GUI First Look

2014-07-10 Thread Namik Karovic
Hey Karl, Thanks for the feedback. > It might be very tricky to get correct behavior for pausing and resuming a > benchmark. As soon as a thread is suspended, it is essentially unable to > take correct timings. You'd have to do some message-passing or work with > callbacks to halt a thread at co

[ViennaCL-devel] Benchmark GUI First Look

2014-07-10 Thread Namik Karovic
Hi all, initial benchmark UI (basic view) is ready. You can find some info about it in my features overview blog post . Some features are still missing and there's some design polishing to be done. But the core benchmarking functionality i