| Date |
Weeks Before
the Cache-off |
Milestone(s) |
April 3
9:00 MDT |
24 |
Organizational meeting in Boulder.
|
May 15
15:00 MDT |
18 |
Feature freeze and workload beta.
By this date, Polyteam knows and has announced all
of the features that will be present in the PolyMix-3
workload. Polyteam have begun to implement
these features in Polygraph. A draft (beta) specification
of the PolyMix-3 workload will be distributed.
|
June 19
15:00 MDT |
13 |
Polygraph Beta Release.
By this date, Polygraph is able to successfully
complete a PolyMix-3 run with a proxy cache. Any known bugs
should be fixed by this time.
Polyteam will distribute documentation that is sufficient to
run a PolyMix-3 test.
This is the participant's cue to take
the software and begin running tests in their own labs. During the
next four weeks, participants must provide feedback on the code
and documentation.
|
July 10
17:00 MDT |
10 |
Soft Registration. Participants must provide (a) an
auto-generated report from a successful PolyMix-3 run or a
detailed description explaining why no report can be generated, and (b) a
non-refundable deposit of US$2,000. The purpose of the report is prove to
Polyteam and the participant that Polygraph can complete the
PolyMix-3 run without bugs and/or errors. If a participant has
an issue with the PolyMix-3 workload, the Polygraph code, or the
documentation, it must be brought to Polyteam's attention by this date, or
the complaints may not be considered. The contents of auto-generated
reports are kept absolutely confidential by Polyteam. |
July 24
17:00 MDT |
8 |
Everything frozen.
By this date, all problems brought to light during
the ``beta test'' phase must be fixed by Polyteam. After this date,
there are to be no changes to the source code and workload parameters.
Documentation frozen too?
|
Aug 18
17:00 MDT |
4 |
Firm Registration.
Participants must pay the full entry fee to Polyteam
by this date. Polyteam needs four weeks lead time to rent computer
and networking equipment.
|
Sept 18
08:00 MDT |
0 |
First day of Cacheoff #3.
When participants come to the cache-off
they must provide an auto-generated polygraph report.
This report must be generated between July 25th and September 17th.
The report must prove they
have completed a successful PolyMix-3 run.
The first official cache-off test for a participant
must be at this same, or lower, peak request rate to ensure that
there will be at least one successful run at the cache-off.
|
Oct 4
17:00 MDT |
|
Cache-off report draft released to the participants.
|
Oct 10
11:00 MDT |
|
``Vendor comments'' sections are due.
Vendors may submit official comments to be included into the report.
Vendors may also submit private comments, of course. Private comments
will be taken into consideration by Polyteam in order to improve the
quality of the report.
|
Oct 11
11:00 MDT |
|
Cache-off report released to the public.
|
Dec 12
00:00 MST |
|
New official PolyMix-3 results can be published for cache-off participants.
|
Jan 12
00:00 MST |
|
New official PolyMix-3 results can be published for any vendor.
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