Byron: I'd be interested to collaborate on this in some fashion. p.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Byron Gibson via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Thanks Nina and Andrew, I may have the capability to run a simulator large > scale on many nodes on AWS/GCE, but am looking to optimize the ROI by > selecting categories of experiments that benefit from a more controlled > environment, rather than be invalidated by its divergence/s from livenet. > But wondering if anyone else has already been doing this, would be nice to > collaborate. > > Byron Gibson > CoS | http://mirrorx.com/ > https://onename.io/bgibson > https://keybase.io/byrongibson > > > On Oct 6, 2015 14:00, "Andrew Miller" <amil...@cs.umd.edu> wrote: > >> Shadow uses virtual time, entirely decoupled from real time. So while it >> may slow down your machine, this would not affect the stats collected >> >> (although it does make shadow somewhat unpleasant to run, unless you have >> a fast machine, compared to abstract simulators that avoid running the >> actual Bitcoin code). >> Hi Byron, >> >> I've been using shadow a bit-- I think these simulators are important for >> testing, but Shadow, at least, certainly seems to have limitations, in some >> crucial respects. Running shadow w Tor (which is only logical, because >> many BCT transactions transpire over Tor) is not as 'light' as presented >> and slows my own box down quite a bit, so the stats can't possibly be >> accurate... I don't know if this answers any questions or if you've had >> this experience at all -- perhaps it is negligible on a more powerful >> machine than my own-- or perhaps there is an adjustment still unaccounted? >> >> Regards, >> Nina K >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 4, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Byron Gibson via bitcoin-dev < >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> >> Hi all, is anyone using simulators like Shadow (https://shadow.github.io), >> BTCSim (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcsim), etc. to test proposed >> changes to Bitcoin? I have a few questions about their capabilities and >> limitations. >> >> Byron Gibson >> http://mirror.co/ >> https://keybase.io/byrongibson >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > >
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