Create a github action to build cardano-node binaries

[ch1bo]

This is neede as the upstream project did not publish their binaries for at least version 8.7.2.

• Add a workflow building static linux and dynamic macos binaries of cardano-node and cardano-cli on demand (manual dispatch). An example run for a successful build: https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/actions/runs/7447617327

• Update tutorial to point to the (to be) locations of where to download cardano-node

• Using zip archives (for now) to be consistent with Hydra, although they do not retain permissions.

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• CHANGELOG updated or not needed
• Documentation updated or not needed
• Haddocks updated or not needed
• No new TODOs introduced or explained herafter

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Transactions Costs

Sizes and execution budgets for Hydra protocol transactions. Note that unlisted parameters are currently using arbitrary values and results are not fully deterministic and comparable to previous runs.

Metadata
Generated at	2024-01-08 14:42:55.538959654 UTC
Max. memory units	14000000
Max. CPU units	10000000000
Max. tx size (kB)	16384

Script summary

Name	Hash	Size (Bytes)
νInitial	985245919fcc6c0c5cd116023cd2c947c43e80dcbb5075fe12433fbb	4072
νCommit	7cb20fa71eb4c563ca283566ebe0aa65859d96c3f8cba35c52c181fd	2043
νHead	7a36661f5c15e9f1783aeaab890812c59b7286cbbc6de762d3110772	8816
μHead	8b111ac12274e46314769295a1c5dcab1d260096fc469fd698065463*	3851

• The minting policy hash is only usable for comparison. As the script is parameterized, the actual script is unique per Head.

Cost of Init Transaction

Parties	Tx size	% max Mem	% max CPU	Min fee ₳
1	4374	10.46	4.04	0.46
2	4575	12.57	4.83	0.49
3	4776	14.73	5.65	0.52
5	5180	19.33	7.40	0.59
10	6185	30.41	11.60	0.75
41	12417	98.92	37.55	1.77

Cost of Commit Transaction

This is using ada-only outputs for better comparability.

UTxO	Tx size	% max Mem	% max CPU	Min fee ₳
1	534	11.37	4.44	0.30
2	720	15.04	6.07	0.35
3	909	18.85	7.75	0.40
5	1288	26.90	11.27	0.51
10	2225	49.55	20.97	0.80
19	3903	99.43	41.75	1.43

Cost of CollectCom Transaction

Parties	UTxO (bytes)	Tx size	% max Mem	% max CPU	Min fee ₳
1	57	480	21.78	8.51	0.41
2	114	590	34.12	13.43	0.55
3	170	700	46.10	18.35	0.69
4	226	810	60.51	24.25	0.85
5	282	920	82.55	33.06	1.10
6	340	1031	98.09	39.59	1.27

Cost of Close Transaction

Parties	Tx size	% max Mem	% max CPU	Min fee ₳
1	490	16.23	7.33	0.36
2	780	18.49	9.36	0.40
3	844	19.82	10.59	0.42
5	1248	23.23	13.83	0.49
10	2208	32.66	22.37	0.67
50	8843	97.85	83.24	1.93

Cost of Contest Transaction

Parties	Tx size	% max Mem	% max CPU	Min fee ₳
1	516	19.78	8.60	0.39
2	697	21.85	10.34	0.43
3	975	24.32	12.45	0.48
5	1283	27.88	15.52	0.54
10	2204	37.59	23.90	0.72
42	7531	97.06	75.50	1.81

Cost of Abort Transaction

Some variation because of random mixture of still initial and already committed outputs.

Parties	Tx size	% max Mem	% max CPU	Min fee ₳
1	4307	18.98	8.16	0.55
2	4493	31.83	13.88	0.71
3	4719	47.88	21.03	0.90
4	4858	66.10	29.12	1.11
5	4951	80.66	35.38	1.27

Cost of FanOut Transaction

Involves spending head output and burning head tokens. Uses ada-only UTxO for better comparability.

Parties	UTxO	UTxO (bytes)	Tx size	% max Mem	% max CPU	Min fee ₳
5	0	0	4205	8.05	3.37	0.42
5	1	57	4239	9.49	4.22	0.44
5	5	285	4375	14.40	7.27	0.51
5	10	569	4545	20.55	11.08	0.60
5	20	1139	4885	32.43	18.53	0.76
5	30	1707	5225	45.15	26.34	0.93
5	40	2277	5564	57.46	33.97	1.10
5	50	2844	5902	69.56	41.52	1.27
5	74	4213	6719	99.34	59.96	1.68

End-To-End Benchmark Results

This page is intended to collect the latest end-to-end benchmarks results produced by Hydra's Continuous Integration system from the latest master code.

Please take those results with a grain of salt as they are currently produced from very limited cloud VMs and not controlled hardware. Instead of focusing on the absolute results, the emphasis should be on relative results, eg. how the timings for a scenario evolve as the code changes.

Generated at 2024-01-08 14:45:35.043001955 UTC

Baseline Scenario

Number of nodes	3
Number of txs	9000
Avg. Confirmation Time (ms)	24.609815048
P99	118.77443266000004ms
P95	35.06367384999999ms
P50	21.2687145ms
Number of Invalid txs	0

Baseline Scenario

Number of nodes	1
Number of txs	3000
Avg. Confirmation Time (ms)	4.636362632
P99	8.13947386999998ms
P95	5.739882049999995ms
P50	4.454672ms
Number of Invalid txs	0

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Test Results

393 tests  ±0   385 ✅ ±0   18m 53s ⏱️ + 1m 13s
132 suites ±0     8 💤 ±0 
  5 files   ±0     0 ❌ ±0 

Results for commit 569cfa0. ± Comparison against base commit a1b4e90.

♻️ This comment has been updated with latest results.

[ghost]

😍 This is great, I think I am going to use this moving forward to download binaries for hydra-chess