We are organizing a workshop on February 19th and 20th, 1996 to discuss the the formation of a form for parallel and sparse BLAS. This will be a follow on to the discussions that took place On November 13th and 14th, 52 people attended a Workshop on Parallel BLAS and Related Interfaces at the Univertsity of Tennessee and the birds of a feather session that took place at the Supercomputer 95 meting in San Diego in December.
The existing BLAS have proven to be very effective in assisting portable, efficient software for sequential and some of the current class of high-performance computers. We would like to investigate the possibility of extending these standards to provide greater coverage of sparse matrices and provide additional facilities for parallel computing.
The purpose of this meeting is to review the findings of the Workshop in November and the BOF at the Supercomputer 95 confernece and to begin a forum to develop calling sequences for a set of low-level computational kernels for the parallel and sequential settings, as well as standards for basic matrix data structures, both dense and sparse.
| Monday February 19 | |
|---|---|
| Embassy Suites Airport Nashville | |
| 12:00 noon | Registration |
| 1:00 pm | Introduction |
| Why we are here | |
| Decide on subgroups | |
| 2:00 pm | Subgroups meet |
| 3:30 pm | Break |
| 4:00 pm | Subgroups meet |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| Tuesday February 20 | |
| Embassy Suites Airport Nashville | |
| 9:00 am | Subgroups meet |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Subgroups meet |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Discussion of subgroups |
| 2:30 pm | Break |
| 3:00 pm | Summary and Wrap-up |
| 4:00 pm | End of meeting |
If you would like to handout reports or documents during the workshop, please bring the material with you. We will not be able to reproduce large volumes of material.
We estimate an attendance of 40 persons at the maximum.
We have made arrangements with the Embassy Suites (Airport).
When making arrangements tell the hotel you are associated with the PBLAS Workshop. The rooms will cost $94/night for a suite. Included in the rate is complimentary cooked to order breakfast and a 2 hour beverage break in the evening.
There will be a $75.00 registration fee, payable at the meeting, to cover the meeting room, reception, and refreshments during the breaks. Included in the registration fee will be dinner on Monday and lunch on Tuesday.
Please let me know if you are planning to attend.
For background information see: background
For a preliminary set of forum rules for discussion see: rules