Some users are asking for benchmarks so we thought we’d share what you can expect in terms of performance. Monkey Analytics is running on Amazon EC2 servers – 1.7GB RAM, 1GHz Xeon/Opteron equivalent machines with plenty of disk space. Free users may be sharing such a machine with other free users, but paid subscribers will have effectively dedicated machines.
If you run an Octave session and execute tic / toc commands before and after your scripts, you will observe that computations are fast, as you would expect given these specs.
However, if you measure the time to submit a command and receive results you’ll simple commands can take 4 seconds to complete. We are improving this – on our development servers we return simple commands in under a second, and we’ll keep pushing on this until it’s unnoticable.
In summary, our computational performance is great, but our perceived performance has room to improve.
We should launch a faster interface within the week – so stay tuned!
