Subject: October 31st meeting

From: Jack Dongarra <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:08:47 -0400

Dear Colleague,

The ParkBench (Parallel Benchmark Working Group)
will meet in Knoxville, Tennessee on
October 31th, 1996.

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 Parallel Benchmarking or Parkbench or Park. The rate about $75.00/night.
You can download a postscript map of the area by looking at
http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra.html.

You can rent a car or get a cab from the airport to the hotel.

We should plan to start at 9:00 am October 31th and finish about 5:00 pm.
If you will be attending the meeting please send me email so we can better
arrange for the meeting.

The format of the meeting is:

Thursday October 31th
 9:00 - 12.00  Full group meeting
12.00 -  1.30  Lunch
 1.30 -  5.00  Full group meeting

Tentative agenda for the meeting:
  1. Minutes of last meeting
  2. Reports and discussion from subgroups
  3. Examine the results obtained so far
  4. Electronic journal of benchmark results
  5. Open discussion on the Supercomputer 96 activity
  6. Date and venue for next meeting

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.

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

Jack Dongarra
Erich Strohmaier