Unicast 20k messages, $500-$1000 bounty

[Joel Reymont]

The Ultimate Erlang Challenge is on:

http://github.com/tinycode/janus/tree/master

Be the first to improve Janus to unicast to 20K clients with a  
consistent maximum latency of less than 1s and grab a $1000 bounty.

Be the first to get the maximum latency consistently under 2s and  
claim $500.

Develop on any hardware but test on Amazon EC2 for final numbers.

Here's the current set for 20k clients with the bots running on one  
small instance and the server on another:

setup: 47791.69ms, n: 20000, run: 55429.86ms
   -21.7180ms | min
   500.0000ms | 1064   - 05.32%
  1000.0000ms | 828    - 04.14%
  1500.0000ms | 1596   - 07.98%
  2000.0000ms | 2786   - 13.93%
  2500.0000ms | 2272   - 11.36%
  3000.0000ms | 2574   - 12.87%
  3500.0000ms | 2717   - 13.58%
  4000.0000ms | 2418   - 12.09%
  4500.0000ms | 2594   - 12.97%
  5000.0000ms | 1151   - 05.75%
  4679.1540ms | max

setup: 50666.82ms, n: 20000, run: 58361.03ms
   -25.4550ms | min
   500.0000ms | 1330   - 06.65%
  1000.0000ms | 811    - 04.06%
  1500.0000ms | 792    - 03.96%
  2000.0000ms | 2800   - 14.00%
  2500.0000ms | 2484   - 12.42%
  3000.0000ms | 2902   - 14.51%
  3500.0000ms | 2526   - 12.63%
  4000.0000ms | 2861   - 14.31%
  4500.0000ms | 2777   - 13.88%
  5000.0000ms | 717    - 03.58%
  4716.3200ms | max

setup: 42524.39ms, n: 20000, run: 50148.11ms
     6.6660ms | min
   500.0000ms | 1168   - 05.84%
  1000.0000ms | 1016   - 05.08%
  1500.0000ms | 1546   - 07.73%
  2000.0000ms | 2442   - 12.21%
  2500.0000ms | 2713   - 13.56%
  3000.0000ms | 2684   - 13.42%
  3500.0000ms | 2636   - 13.18%
  4000.0000ms | 2363   - 11.82%
  4500.0000ms | 2248   - 11.24%
  5000.0000ms | 1184   - 05.92%
  4680.1510ms | max

Here are the numbers from my unibody MacBook Pro 2.93Ghz:

setup: 15040.77ms, n: 20000, run: 23101.30ms
     1.5010ms | min
   500.0000ms | 579
  1000.0000ms | 3693
  1500.0000ms | 509
  2000.0000ms | 1758
  2500.0000ms | 3922
  3000.0000ms | 2577
  3500.0000ms | 2809
  4000.0000ms | 1657
  4500.0000ms | 2496
  4185.8580ms | max

setup: 14538.21ms, n: 20000, run: 22750.28ms
     2.8300ms | min
   500.0000ms | 400
  1000.0000ms | 1541
  1500.0000ms | 7107
  2000.0000ms | 5402
  2500.0000ms | 4670
  3000.0000ms | 880
  2595.8890ms | max

setup: 15929.55ms, n: 20000, run: 23789.73ms
     1.7730ms | min
   500.0000ms | 1330
  1000.0000ms | 668
  1500.0000ms | 1878
  2000.0000ms | 4109
  2500.0000ms | 4954
  3000.0000ms | 2546
  3500.0000ms | 1259
  4000.0000ms | 3256
  3902.5510ms | max
ok


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Mac hacker with a performance bent
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