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Script for Performance Demo

Script for Performance Demo

Sept 04, 2018

Overview

This document describes the order of events planned for the performance demo at RCon3.

Cast

Role

Name(s)

Role

Name(s)

Master of ceremony

Medha Parlikar

Pyrofex CTO

Mike Stay

RChain COOP board member

Kenny Rowe

Core team developers

Michael Birch

@Łukasz Gołębiewski (Unlicensed)

@Dominik Zajkowski

Test net genesis validators































Fangwei He

TSZ HING LAU

Dror Dayan

Steven Bezzio

Tomislav Grospić

Navneet Suman

Lee Carter

Jacob Gadikian

Victor Chkalikoff

Nuno Lopes

MERVYN CHNG

Dubravko Golub

Joshy Orndorff

Nicholas Bascombe-Fox

Jacob Bassiri-Tehrani

Ted Barkov

gregg dourgarian

Helge Qvam

Mark Pui

Will Qiu

Matthew Kaye

Jake Gillberg

Tracey Simmons

Deng YuMing

Karen Moskowitz

Qinwen Zheng

Vadim Trifonov

Ojimadu Chidindu

Will Qiu

TIANYU HU

YEOH, JIT LEONG

Charles Holtzkampf

Pavitra Saxena

Dashboard operator

Kelly Foster

 

 

 

Techical considerations

Use a Zoom session to toggle between screen shares (slides, terminals, and dashboard).

Script

Act I - Prelude

Duration - 5 minutes

The main ballroom of the Berlin Conference center.

Main screen to support display of slides, terminal windows, and the performance metrics dashboard.

MC at the podium.

Test net launchers at tables at the front of the room facing the audience.

Core dev team is in the front of the room

 

MC: Goals - Describe the performance test. 

  • Welcome

  • High-level overview of the activities of the session (slide) 

  • Intro of the cast (round robin)

  • Describe the test net network  - Yesterday we launched the test net, and we have N validators in the network, etc...

Act II - Teach

Duration - 15 minutes

Same setting

Medha Parlikar Goals - Set expectations around performance metrics. 

  • Overview of what we will discuss

  • Describe what a COMM event is, what is the difference between a transaction and a COMM event. 

  • Talk about the differences between latency, throughput, time to finalization, how the proof of Stake consensus protocol has this concept of 'safety'

  • Talk about the stages that a transaction goes through - Deployment, Proposal, Validation, 'Finalization'

  • Talk about the tests we will run.

  • Talk about the performance harness we built, where it is in Github, etc..

Act III - Test initiation - Demonstrate COMM events

Duration - 5 minutes

Same setting

MC: kick off the test

  • Watch the commencement of the test.

  • Watch the genesis of the block on the bootstrap node (terminal)

  • Watch the start up of a validator node (terminal)

  • Watch the receipt of the block from the bootstrap node (terminal)

  • Show dashboard for timer and count of validating signatures

Act IV - Interlude

Duration - 15 minutes

Same setting

REV issuance SME: Goal teach REV issuance (focus on what RHOC holders should do and should expect)

Act V - Conclusion

Duration - 15 minutes

Same setting

MC: Goal - confirm the launch of test net, here's how to join, solicit feedback on changes for main net launch