This repository contains an example application that uses GCE resources and the OpenTuner autotuning framework.

The MeasurementClient class is an OpenTuner MeasurementDriver that uses an interface to the GCE API to send result requests to a server in a GCE virtual machine. The server is hosted in this repository.

This git repository contains the measurement_client (repo) and the gce_interface(repo) as git submodules. To clone this project and its submodules run:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/phrb/gce_autotuning_example.git

To run the example, you have to either copy the full startup script to this project or build a private image, using the commands in the script. You also have to install the dependencies that can be found in the startup script. In a Debian Jessie, run:

$ sudo apt-get install git python-pip python-dev python-matplotlib libsqlite3-dev libfreetype6-dev
$ sudo pip install --upgrade oauth2client google-api-python-client
$ sudo pip install opentuner

Search for the correspondent packages for different distributions. Now you have to change the project name in run.py and enable gcloud on your machine. Then you can run:

$ python run.py

You can also pass options directly to the tuner. Check run.py or run the following for more information:

$ python rosenbrock.py -h