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Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> This looks really exciting!
> 
> Do you plan to add a way so that people can submit performance data?  
> I.e., if I set up my own test box and want to submit a result once a 
> week for that, will there be a way for me to get set up with a 
> username/password, submit configuration information, and then 
> automatically submit test result datapoints?  Especially if I can 
> specify both the X and Y coordinates so that I can backdate results 
> should I go back and generate test results for old kernels?

The website and benchmarking slave talk to a PostgreSQL database. It's 
definitely possible and part of the design to have multiple computers 
participating in a distributed fashion, although it's also possible to 
run the setup locally and privately for more ad-hoc testing purposes.

I think it's best if participating machines supply data regularly for an 
extended period of time. Single or infrequent data points for a specific 
configuration don't make much sense. We need to compare apples to apples.

Erik