Subject: PBWG posting

From: Jack Dongarra <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 15:01:25 -0500

Here is a note I'm planning on posting to comp.parallel.
Let me know if you see any problems. I will post it on 
Friday. 3/12.
Regards,
Jack

Dear Colleague,

We are planning to have the Third Meeting of the Parallel Benchmark Working
Group meet in Knoxville, Tennessee at the University of Tennessee on 
May 24th, 1993.

This process formally began with a workshop held at the Supercomputer '92
meeting in November 1992.
The purpose of the working group is to establish credible and
useful benchmarks for the evaluation of Distributed Memory MIMD systems.  

The objectives for the group are:
1.   To establish a comprehensive set of parallel benchmarks that is generally
     accepted by both users and vendors of parallel system.

2.   To provide a focus for parallel benchmark activities and avoid
     unnecessary duplication of effort and proliferation of benchmarks.

3.   To set standards for benchmarking methodology and result-reporting
     together with a control database/repository for both the benchmarks and
     the results.

Mode of Working:
The working group has adopted an HPF-like forum style of proceedings
with a view to convergence to an agreed set of benchmarks and procedures 
within 10 months.

If you would like to participate and attend the meeting let me know.

Mailing Lists
=============

The following mailing lists have been set up.

   [email-masked]         Whole committee
   [email-masked]     Low level subcommittee
   [email-masked]   Compact applications subcommittee
   [email-masked]       Methodology subcommittee
   [email-masked]       Kernel subcommittee

If you are on a mailing list you will receive mail as it is posted.
If you want to join a mailing list send me mail ([email-masked]).

All mail will be collected and can be retrieved by sending email to
[email-masked] and in the mail message typing:
send comm.archive from pbwg
send lowlevel.archive from pbwg
send compactapp.archive from pbwg
send method.archive from pbwg
send kernel.archive  from pbwg
send index from pbwg

The various subcommittees will look into the following topics:

Low-Level:
---------
Start-up, latency, bandwidth
Reduction (broadcast, sum, gather/scatter)
Synchronization (e.g., SYNCH1 from Genesis)
I/O

Kernel:
------
Matrix operations (e.g., multiply, transpose)
LU Decomposition
PDE Solvers (Red/Black Relaxation)
Multigrid
FFT
Conjugate Gradient

Compact Applications:
--------------------
Particle-In-Cell codes (e.g., LPM1 from Genesis)
QCD
Molecular Dynamics
CFD
ARCO
Financial Applications 

Methodology:
------------
Guidelines for reporting performance.

The meeting site will be the:

  University Center in room 221
  University of Tennessee

We have made arrangements with the Hilton Hotel in Knoxville.

  Hilton Hotel
  501 W. Church Street
  Knoxville, TN
  Phone:  615-523-2300

When making arrangements tell the hotel you are associated with
the Parallel Benchmarking Meeting.

You can rent a car or get a cab from the airport to the hotel.
>From the hotel to the University it is a 15 minute walk.

We should plan to start at 8:30 pm May 24th and finish about 5:00 pm.

The format of the meeting is:

Monday 25th May
 8.30 - 12.00  Full group meeting
12.00 -  1.30  Formal lunch
 1.30 -  4.00  Parallel subgroup meetings
 5.00 -  5.00  Full group meeting

Tentative agenda for full group meeting:
  1. Minutes of Minneapolis meeting
  2. Reports and discussion from subgroups
  3. Open discussion and agreement on further actions
  4. Date and venue for next meeting

Suggested subgroups - probably two in parallel
   Compact Applications 
   Low-Level benchmarks
and second pair:
   Kernels benchmarks
   Methodology

We have setup a mail refector for correspondence, it is called
[email-masked]. Mail to that address will be sent to the mailing
list and also collected in [email-masked]. To retrieve
the collected mail, send email to [email-masked] and in the mail
message type:
  send comm.archive from pbwg

If you would like to be put on the mailing list to receive the correspondence
let me know.

Regards,
Jack Dongarra

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