Subject: ParkBench BOF - Supercomputing'96

From: "Erich Strohmaier" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:01:46 -0500

Dear Colleague,

  The ParkBench (PARallel Kernels and BENCHmarks) committee has
organized a BOF session at the Supercomputing'96 in Pittsburgh.

   Room:   Doubletree Hotel, Washington Room
   Time:   Tuesday 1:30-3:30pm

  We will talk about the latest release, results available and plans
for the coming releases.

The inital 'Call for Papers' for our new journal will also be available:

           Electronic Journal of Performance Evaluation and Modeling
                          for Computer Systems

                Tentative Agenda of the BOF

   - Introduction, background, WWW-Server
   - Current Release of ParkBench
   - Low Level Performance Evaluation Tools
   - LinAlg Kernel Benchmarks
   - NAS Parallel Benchmarks,  including latest results
   - Plans for the next Release
   - Electronic Journal of Performance Evaluation and Modeling
     for Computer Systems
   - Questions from the floor / discussion

  Please mark your calendar and plan to attend.

Jack Dongarra
Tony Hey
Erich Strohmaier