Subject: August Parkbench Meeting

From: Jack Dongarra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 09:52:31 -0400

Dear Colleague,

The Sixth Meeting of the ParkBench (Parallel Benchmark Working Group)
will meet in Knoxville, Tennessee on August 29th, 1994.

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:  615-523-2300

When making arrangements tell the hotel you are associated with
the ParkBench or University of Tennessee. The rate is $68.00/night.
You can download a postscript map of the area by anonymous ftp'ing 
to netlib2.cs.utk.edu, cd shpcc94, get knx-downtown.ps.

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

We should plan to start at 9:00 am August 29th 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.

If you are planning to arrive early on Sunday let me know, perhaps
I can join you for dinner.

The format of the meeting is:

Monday 29th August
 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) Relation of ParkBench to SPEC
  (3) Status of various sections of ParkBench
  (4) Availability of the NAS benchmarks.
  (5) Cleanup of benchmark code.
  (6) Report on Southampton's Graphical Interface to Parkbench Data Base
  (7) Report on Parkbench Data Base. how does one enter data etc.
  (8) Supercomputing 94 meeting
  (9) Where we go from here
 (10) Parkbench Chair

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

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Jack Dongarra