ITK/10th Anniversary Activities/Dashboard Fest 1.0

The Goal:

To break the Record of Number of Experimental Builds Submitted to the ITK Dashboard

When ?

• November 6th 2009

What to do ?

• Submit as many Experimental builds as you dare to the ITK CDash Dashboard

Why ?

• Just because we can !
• Because it is easy !
• Because it is fun !
• Because anyone can participate of the celebration regardless of geographical location and time zone !

How ?

In Linux

Download ITK

Get any recent release tarballs from

  http://www.itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html

and extract it in a "SOURCE" directory

  mkdir ~/ITK10thAnniversary
  mkdir ~/ITK10thAnniversary/src
  cd ~/ITK10thAnniversary/src
  tar -xzf InsightToolkit-3.16.0.tar.gz 

or

Use CVS

  mkdir ~/ITK10thAnniversary
  mkdir ~/ITK10thAnniversary/src
  cd ~/ITK10thAnniversary/src
  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.itk.org:/cvsroot/Insight login

password: insight

  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.itk.org:/cvsroot/Insight co Insight

Configure ITK

Create a "BINARY" directory

  mkdir ~/ITK10thAnniversary/bin

go inside that directory

  cd ~/ITK10thAnniversary/bin

call ccmake

  ccmake ~/ITK10thAnniversary/src

• Type "c" for Configuring
• Type "t" for Toggling to Advanced variables
• Type "/SITE" to search for the SITE variable
• Hit the Enter key to edit that variable
• Write the name of your machine and institution
  • for example: zion.kitware
  • but if you want to be creative, just go for it!
    • simply try to keep the SITE name to less than 25 characters.
• Type "c" for Configuring
• Type "g" for Generating makefiles

At this point, ccmake will quite, and you are ready for building ITK.

Building ITK (First Submission)

From the same BINARY directory, simply type:

   make Experimental

Depending on the speed of your computer, one to three hours later, your build submission should appear in the ITK Dashboard:

  http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight

More specifically, in the "Experimental" Section:

  http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight#Experimental

To find your build, look for the "SITE" name that you assigned in the first column (labeled SITE) of the Experimental section.

Keep Submitting Builds

Once you have submitted the first Experimental build, the process of submitting subsequent builds is trivial.

Just go the "BINARY" directory:

  cd ~/ITK10thAnniversary/bin

and do:

  make clean
  make Experimental

Then, to keep submitting more builds you could:

• Comming back every two hours to type the same commands, or
• Put these two statements in a for-loop in a shell script, or
• in a python script, or
• perl script, or
• setup a cron job

Of course, there is no reason why you should limit yourself to a single computer  :-)

The same process could be run in any number of machines. However, you may want to assign a unique name to the SITE variable in every machine.