[Insight-developers] ITK 10th Anniversary: 24 HOURS to DASHBOARD FEST 1.0 : Nov 5th 9pm EST : Parallel Builds

[Luis Ibanez]

Gaetan Lehmann pointed out that we can take advantage of the
DASHBOARD FEST 1.0 to track (and hopefully solve) an issue
with the parallel build of ITK.

In summary:

* ctest makes possible to use all the cores of your computer
   when building a project and when running its tests.

* you take advantage of this functionality by using the "-j" option
   in ctest. For example, if you have four cores, then you can
   use them all, by calling:      "ctest -j4  -D Experimental"

It will be great, if tomorrow and Friday, as you submit builds
to the ITK Dashboard, you use the "-j" option of ctest.

For more details, please see:
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_10th_Anniversary_Activities/Dashboard_Fest_1.0#Submitting_a_Parallel_Build


     Please let us know if you have any questions,


              Thanks


                   Luis


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2009/11/4 Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr>:
>
> Hi Luis,
>
> Le 4 nov. 09 à 17:59, Luis Ibanez a écrit :
>
>> Gaetan,
>>
>> My apologies for the delay...
>>
>>      Yours is an Excellent idea !
>>
>> If we are going to collect hundreds of builds,
>> we may as well, use them to track and fix
>> a difficult bug.   :-)
>>
>>
>> I'll add instructions to the Wiki, on using CMake 2.8.
>>
>> Do we need to enable something in particular, ?
>> (in addition to using cmake 2.8)
>>
>
> I'm simply running
>
>  ctest -j8 -D Experimental
>
> instead of
>
>  make Experimental
>
> That's all :-)
>
>>
>>    Please let us know,
>>
>>
>>           Thanks
>>
>>
>>                  Luis
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> 2009/11/2 Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr>:
>>>
>>> Hi Luis,
>>>
>>> I've been fixing some problems while running parallel tests with ctest
>>> 2.8
>>> in the last days.
>>> I used a very rough approach to find those problems: running the full
>>> tests
>>> many times, and tracking the transient failures.
>>>
>>> The Dashboard fest seems to be a great opportunity to do the same on a
>>> wider
>>> set of systems.
>>>
>>> What would you think to advice to install cmake 2.8 for the dashboard
>>> fest,
>>> and run has many tests in parallel as possible?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Gaëtan
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 2 nov. 09 à 16:31, Luis Ibanez a écrit :
>>>
>>>>      The ITK DASHBOARD FEST 1.0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_10th_Anniversary_Activities/Dashboard_Fest_1.0
>>>>
>>>> will start on:
>>>>
>>>>      Thursday November 5th at 9pm EST.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please not that US daylight savings time change
>>>> just took place this past Sunday, Nov 1st.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Everyone can participate in the Dashboard Fest !
>>>>
>>>> You just need:
>>>>
>>>>      1) A working computer
>>>>      2) An Internet connection
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please see the following Wiki page, for details
>>>>
>>>> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_10th_Anniversary_Activities/Dashboard_Fest_1.0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Let us know if you find any problems,
>>>> while following the preparation instructions.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>           Luis
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>>> --
>>> Gaëtan Lehmann
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>>>
>
> --
> Gaëtan Lehmann
> Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
> INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
> tel: +33 1 34 65 29 66    fax: 01 34 65 29 09
> http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr  http://www.itk.org
> http://www.mandriva.org  http://www.bepo.fr
>
>