[pypy-dev] Software benchmarking workshop, April 20, King's College London

[Sarah Mount]

Dear all,

PyPy developers in the UK may be interested in this event on the topic
of software benchmarking. Registration will remain open until April
6th. If you have any questions please feel free to email me directly
(off list).


Best Practices in Software Benchmarking 2016 (#bench16)
Wednesday April 20 2016
King's College London
http://soft-dev.org/events/bench16/


For computer scientists and software engineers, benchmarking (evaluating the
running time of a piece of software, or the performance of a piece of hardware)
is a common method for evaluating new techniques. However, there is little
agreement on how benchmarking should  be carried out, how to control for
confounding variables, how to analyse latency data, or  how to aid the
repeatability of experiments. This free workshop will be a venue for computer
scientists and research software engineers to discuss their current best
practices and  future directions.


For further information and free registration please visit:
http://soft-dev.org/events/bench16/


Confirmed Speakers:

Jan Vitek (Northeastern University)
Joe Parker (The Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens)
Simon Taylor (University of Lancaster)
Tomas Kalibera (Northeastern University)
James Davenport (University of Bath)
Edd Barrett (King's College London)
Jeremy Bennett (Embecosm)



Organizers:

Sarah Mount & Laurence Tratt (King's College London)