On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Alex Rousskov wrote:
] Based on the second bake-off registrations, the majority of vendors
]has not tried PolyMix-2 workload yet. This probably means two things:
](a) those who were working with PolyMix-2 for the past two month may
]have a "fair advantage" and (b) I would expect more compatibility
]problems and bugs to be found. We are, however, getting more reluctant
]to modify this branch of Polygraph and would encourage to report bugs
]sooner rather than just before the bake-off. :)
It could also mean a third thing (I really shouldn't be saying this when
looking at my own feeble attempts): The documentation for PolyGraph is
needing a major push. True, the myriads of options are documented, and it
is a fascinatingly tunable but complex system the poly team created.
Still, I only have the faintest idea how things interact (for instance,
how do I access results and where are they). There are just too many
buttons and dials to fiddle with.
Yes, the simple.pg test did work, but what did it tell me apart from
"polygraph works"? I am desparately missing some kind of step by step
guide through this "Labyrinth of Minotaurus", e.g. like the guidelines
presented in the Utrecht workshop start of this year, or an upgrade of the
Poly1 slides pages to Poly2.
I am going to downgrade today to Poly1 in the hope of getting some
*results*. Maybe some of the registered participants feel the same kind of
frustration I got to know last week when trying to wrestle with Poly2.
Le deagh dhùrachd,
Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
University of Hanover, Germany; +49 511 762 4726
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