Subject: ParkBench Committee Meeting - tentative Agenda

From: "Erich Strohmaier" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:36:16 -0400

Dear Colleague,

The ParkBench (Parallel Benchmark Working Group)
will meet in Knoxville, Tennessee on
May 9th, 1997.

The meeting site will be the Knoxville Downtown Hilton Hotel.
We have made arrangements with the Hilton Hotel in Knoxville.

  Hilton Hotel
  501 W. Church Street
  Knoxville, TN
  Phone:  423-523-2300

When making arrangements tell the hotel you are associated with
the 'ParkBench'. The rate about $79.00/night.
You can download a postscript map of the area by looking at
http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra.html.

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The format of the meeting is:

Friday May 9th, 1997.
   9:00 - 12.00  Full group meeting
  12.00 -  1.30  Lunch
   1.30 -  5.00  Full group meeting

There might be also a joint session with the SPEC/HPG group
on Thursday 8th at about 3pm-5pm

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Please send us your comments about the tentative agenda:

  1. Minutes of last meeting (MBe)

     Changes to Current release:
  2. Low Level (ES, VG, RS)
     comms1, comms2, comms3, poly2
  3. Linear Algebra (ES)
  4. Compact Applications - NPBs (SS, ES)

     New benchmarks:
  5. HPF Low Level benchmarks (MBa)
? 6. New shared memory Low Level benchmarks (MBa)
? 7. New performance database design and new benchmark output format (MBa,VG)
? 8. Update of GBIS with new Web front-end (MBa,VG)

     Report from other benchmark activities
  9. ASCI Benchmark Codes (RS)
 10. SPEC (RE)

     ParkBench:
 11. ParkBench Bibliography
 12. ParkBench Report 2

     Other Activities:
 13. Discussion of the ParkBench Workshop 11/12 September, UK
 14. "Electronic Benchmarking Journal" - status report -

 15. Miscellaneous -

 16. Date and venue for next meeting -

  (MBa) Mark Baker          Univ. of Portsmouth
  (MBe) Michael Berry       Univ. of Tennessee
  (JD)  Jack Dongarra       Univ. of Tenn./ORNL
  (RE)  Rudi Eigenmann      SPEC
  (VG)  Vladimir Getov      Univ. of Westminister
  (TH)  Tony Hey            Univ. of Southampton
  (SS)  Subhash Saini       NASA Ames
  (RS)  Ron Sercely         HP/CXTC
  (ES)  Erich Strohmaier    Univ. of Tennessee

Jack Dongarra
Erich Strohmaier