Add algorithm to execute performance benchmarks

[ascheibe]

Add an algorithm to execute performance benchmarks (Linpack, Dhrystone, Whetstone, etc.).

[ascheibe]

r6917 create branch for benchmarking algorithms

[ascheibe]

r6920 added benchmarking algorithms

[ascheibe]

mkommend suggested that we pull the common parts out of FixedDataAnalysisAlgorithm and put them in a base class in HeuristicLab.Optimization (OptimizerBase and ExecutableBase) because there is now a lot of duplicate code in our benchmarking algorithms.

[ascheibe]

on behalf of spimming: r6934

• implemented abstract base class for benchmarking algorithms
• added License information
• corrected plugin dependencies
• corrected descriptions

[spimming]

r6948:

• restructuring of the benchmarking algorithms
• common interface for benchmarks
• 'benchmark' class discovers benchmarking algorithms
• added TimeLimit and ChunkSize parameters to benchmark

[ascheibe]

General:

• Getters/Setters should be placed in the code directly after the corresponding private data members.

Benchmark.cs:

• In DiscoverBenchmarks i wouldn't throw an exception if no benchmarks are found. If there are no benchmarks then no benchmarks can be selected and executed, i think that's no problem.
• There is some uncommented code that should be removed.

GUI:

• Mention in the description of the TimeLimit parameter that 0 means a fixed number of iterations.
• In the parameters tab where you can choose the Benchmarking algorithm there is below the drop down menu the text "No view available". Can we get rid of this?
• Input validation would be nice so that no negative values can be entered.
• In the Run Collection View if a run is selected, both "Benchmark Name" and "Benchmark Type" display "Benchmark" as value. Can we hide them? This point isn't really important though.

[spimming]

r6987:

• removed uncommented code
• removed ‘Benchmark Name’ and ‘Benchmark Type’ from result collection
• placed Getters/Setters after data members
• added input validation
• updated parameter description

[ascheibe]

r7000 updated branch from trunk

[ascheibe]

r7002

• fixed errors found by unit tests
• set references to copylocal=false
• added missing platforms to project files

[ascheibe]

r7004

• renamed benchmarking algs to Benchmark where it was missing
• merged from trunk

[ascheibe]

r7006 merged benchmarking algorithms branch back to trunk

[ascheibe]

r7007 fixed small typo

[ascheibe]

r7008 added an empty view for IBenchmark so that "No view available" won't be displayed in HL

[ascheibe]

swagner: Just in case you have some spare time you can have a look at it ;-)

[ascheibe]

r7015 removed .resx files and moved Benchmark to Algorithms category

[ascheibe]

r7016 deleted benchmarking branch

[swagner]

Thanks for implementing this feature. I reviewed the code and made some additional changes:

r7246:

• renamed Benchmark to BenchmarkAlgorithm and BenchmarkView to BenchmarkAlgorithmView
• removed unnecessary assembly references
• removed IBenchmarkView as the user should be informed that there is no specific view for benchmarks
• adapted descriptions of plugins and assemblies
• created new and unique assembly Guids
• sealed BenchmarkAlgorithm
• adapted item names and item descriptions
• adapted code formatting

r7247:

• added base class Benchmark for benchmark implementations
• implemented ToString in Benchmark base class
• removed suffix Benchmark from class names of benchmark implementations
• sealed benchmark implementations Linpack, Dhrystone and Whetstone

r7248:

• removed unnecessary problem-specific parts in BenchmarkAlgorithm
• enabled name and description changes in BenchmarkAlgorithm
• adapted parameter descriptions
• implemented ToString in BenchmarkAlgorithm
• renamed CreateDataChuck to CreateChunkData
• adapted code formatting

[swagner]

Please review my changes together with ascheibe and also test in the GUI once more. If you do not find any other issues, please set this ticket to ready to release. Thanks.