On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Has anyone tried to estimate this?<div><br></div><div>The obvious solution is to activate the "call home" feature in PetscFinalize. ;-)</div>
</blockquote></div><br>I thought about this again. The main trouble is that users may not want to share the information,<div>and currently there is a culture of secrecy around large runs. I think you have to offer something</div>
<div>in return. I propose we offer a service like Google Analytics (or <a href="http://www.statcounter.com">www.statcounter.com</a>). That is,</div><div>people autosend performance results and we deliver canned analyses for free, and better ones</div>
<div>for consulting fees (so that no one will actually do it). Then, after a little while, we make it opt-in</div><div>in configure, and poof we have an idea about a fair fraction of PETSc runs.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener<br>
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