Requirements for voting system

[ineiti]

Forms: 24
Voters: 10'000
Min. choices: 0
Max. choices: 5
Candidates: 20
Actual ballots: 500 - 1'000

[PascalinDe]

to close this ticket, please add a document w/ that information in the repository

[PascalinDe]

@ineiti could you add a line with your current benchmarks in the README? that would close this ticket

[ineiti]

State of 2024-03-07:

Benchmarks

On 7th of March 2024, we ran a benchmark on the following system:

• 1 node on a server in EPFL
• 3 nodes on one server in switch-engines/ZH
• a client form a DSL home account

1'000 votes

• casting 1000 votes took 16.02.20 (298) - 16.00.45 (119)
  • 95 seconds -> 95ms / vote
  • 179 blocks -> 5.6 votes / block
• closing: immediate
• shuffle: 16.11.45 (308) - 16.10.49 (299)
  • 56 seconds
  • 9 blocks
  • Timeout error in frontend
• decrypting: 16.13.13 (308) - 16.13.18 (310)
  • 5 seconds
  • 2 blocks
  • nonce error in the backend
• combining
  • 1 second
  • 1 block

10'000 votes

4 minutes outage because the main node failed
Running over CISCO / EPFL

• casting 10'000 votes took 16.37.36 (1779) - 16.17.49 (313)
• time on 9392 votes = 14m48s
  • 888s / 9392 votes -> 95ms / vote
  • 10000 votes / 1466 blocks -> 6.8 votes/blocks
• closing: 2s - 1 block
• shuffle: 16.51.22 (1790) - 16.42.20 (1780)
  • Timout error in frontend
  • 9m2s
  • 10 blocks
• decrypting 17.07.20 (1793) - 17.06.31 (1790)
  • 49s
  • 3 blocks
• combining: 17.08.59 (1794) - 17.08.12 (1793)
  • 47s
  • 1 block