ParkBench Meeting

April 26, 1996

Hilton Hotel Knoxville

Knoxville, TN

We are organizing a ParkBench Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee on April 26th, 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 is about $75.00/night. You can download a postscript map of the area by looking at map . You can rent a car or get a cab from the airport to the hotel. We should plan to start at 9:00 am April 26th and finish about 4:00 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:

Workshop Agenda

Friday April 26th
Hilton Hotel Knoxville
9:00 am - 12:00	Full group meeting
12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Full group meeting

Tentative agenda for the meeting:

Minutes of last meeting

Reports and discussion from subgroups

Examine the results obtained so far

Electronic journal of benchmark results

Date and venue for next meeting

The objectives for the group are:

To establish a comprehensive set of parallel benchmarks that is generally accepted by both users and vendors of parallel system.

To provide a focus for parallel benchmark activities and avoid unnecessary duplication of effort and proliferation of benchmarks.

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.

parkbench-comm@cs.utk.edu Whole committee

parkbench-lowlevel@cs.utk.edu Low level subcommittee

parkbench-compactapp@cs.utk.edu Compact applications subcommittee

parkbench-method@cs.utk.edu Methodology subcommittee

parkbench-kernel@cs.utk.edu Kernel subcommittee

The ParkBench Software is here.

Please let me know if you are planning to attend.