December 3, 2009

Performance Meeting - 2009/12/03
 
Number:  812-856-3600
Participant code:  002690#
Agenda:  
·       SC'09 wrap-up
Review of architecture writeups
·       benchmarks (Robert)
·       benchmark framework (Shava)
·       benchmark repository (Shava)
·       instrumentation (Raphael, Thomas)
·       performance portal (Shava)
·       user tools (Robert)
 
Notes:
Attendees:  Shava (UCSD), Raphael (ISI), Warren (TACC), Mauricio (UF), Robert (IU), Thomas (TU-D)
 

•  During SC'09, Shava met with Lavanya Ramakrishnan who is working on the Magellan project at LBL.  This is a DOE project with ANL.  They are interested in collaborating with us on our performance work and everybody agreed it would be a fruitful collaboration.  Plan to touch base with them early next year.
• Meeting with Penguin computing at SC'09 went well -- they are interested in distributing their hardware at some FutureGrid site(s) and splitting access to the machines -- Geoffrey following up -- potential impact -- more machines to benchmark/access/monitor
• Reviewed writeup status -- not much progress since SC but most people feel they will have time to complete their sections before the xmas break
• Reviewed overlap between Vampir and Experiment Harness once experiment started - should be complimentary -- leverage OTF
• Reviewed overlap between Vampir and Pegasus in the role of FutureGrid instrumentation (for performance monitoring) - should be complimentary
• Also overlap between Experiment Harness and Pegasus -- needs to be defined - also talked about in software call later that day
• Raphael spoke with Grid5000 folks and got an allocation of accounts for FutureGrid -- will start some experiments there -- Grid5000 has 5 years of experience over FutureGrid