Subject: Re: [Fwd: SPEC Benchmarking Workshops]

From: William Walster <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:37:13 -0700 (PDT)

Bodo,

I have got the funding for intervals in f95 as a fully supported
feature for TAZ!

Remember you asked me about some interval benchmark programs.  We have
a nice demonstration code for getting guaranteed and *sharp* bounds on
the eigen values of a symetric matrix.  As time goes on, we can gather
more.

Are there any parameters we should be taking into account when developing
such benchmarks?  The one above is nice because it scales.

Cheers,

Bill

  >Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:58:12 -0700
  >From: Bodo Parady <[email-masked]>
  >Subject: [Fwd: SPEC Benchmarking Workshops]
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  >SPEC will be sponsoring a one day session on HPC, Monday Sept 13
  >in Wupertal, Germany.  Javagrande members are encouraged
  >to participate.
  >
  >Regards
  >
  >    Bodo
  >---
  >
  > Announcement and Call for Participation!
  > ========================================
  >
  >Benchmarking Workshops:
  >  "Benchmarking Parallel and High-Performance Computing Systems
  >      at University of Wuppertal (Wuppertal, Germany), September 13 1999.
  >
  >  "Benchmarking Computer Systems: SPEC Meets Researchers and Benchmark Users"
  >      at Siemens AG (Paderborn, Germany), September 14 1999.
  >
  >The workshops will be sponsored by the Standard Performance Evaluation
  >Corporation (SPEC), Siemens AG (Paderborn, Germany) and the
  >University of Wuppertal's Department of Mathematics Scientific Computing
  >Group (Wuppertal, Germany), and will be held in conjunction with
  >the SPEC joint meeting, September 15-17 1999. Hosted by SPEC member
  > company Siemens AG, the SPEC joint meeting will be held in
  >Paderborn, Germany. The following SPEC focus groups will be present:
  >
  >     OSG: Open Systems Group
  >     GPC: Graphics Performance Characterization Group
  >     HPG: High Performance Computing Group
  >
  >***********************************************************************
  >This notice is a call for contributions for the two upcoming
  >SPEC Workshops scheduled for:
  >
  >     Monday, September 13 1999 at the University of Wuppertal, Germany
  >     Tuesday, September 14 1999 at Siemens AG in Paderborn, Germany
  >***********************************************************************
  >
  >Workshop Deadlines:
  >===================
  > July 20, 1999: Intention to contribute a paper: send 100 to 200 word
  >                abstract to [email-masked]. Please indicate on which
  >                workshop day your contribution should be included.
  >
  > August 15, 1999: Notification of accepted presentations and authors.
  >
  > Hotel accommodations and reservations: note, only a limited number of
  >                hotel rooms are blocked for workshop participants until
  >                August 15, 1999. Thereafter, a hotel reservation might be
  >                possible but cannot be guaranteed.
  >
  > Wuppertal Workshop: more information on hotel accommodations is available,
  >                along with an online requestform for hotel reservations.
  >
  > Paderborn Workshop: information about hotel accommodations will be available
  >                mid-June. If information is needed earlier, please contact
  >                Kristin Wichert, Siemens AG, Paderborn. For travel 
information
  >                on Paderborn, please see the location information page of
  >                Siemens Nixdorf Paderborn.
  >
  > September 1, 1999: Final abstract of presentation due at 
[email-masked]
  >
  >Intention to participate (without a paper): please complete the online
  >                registration form at
  >                    http://www.spec.org/events/specworkshop/germany/.
  >
  >Workshop Program Committee:
  >===========================
  >The selection of papers will occur on the basis of abstracts (1-3 pages).
  >The following international program committee will select the papers
  >for the workshop:
  >
  >     Maria Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy
  >     Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA
  >     Andreas Frommer, University of Wupperatal, Germany
  >     Greg Gaertner, Compaq Computer Corporation, USA
  >     Bodo Parady, Sun Microsystems, USA
  >     Reinhold Weicker, Siemens AG, Paderborn, Germany
  >
  >Workshop Motivation:
  >====================
  >The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), known for its
  > benchmark development, has a broad industrial member base.
  >Although SPEC benchmarks are widely used in academic research as well,
  >there have been only occasional attempts for an active dialog
  >between the SPEC membership and the research community in developing and
  >using benchmarks and performance evaluation methodologies.
  >The workshop intends to bridge this gap. Participants are invited to present
  > research results that make use of SPEC benchmarks, describe
  >studies with applications that may be used as next-generation benchmarks,
  >discuss issues and solutions in developing new benchmarks, and
  >present novel approaches for evaluating research results. Of particular
  >interest are presentations that discuss these issues in the context of
  >realistic applications that have a broad user base.
  >
  >Workshop Goal:
  >==============
  >The goal of the workshop is to foster an exchange of information and ideas
  > in the area of performance measurement and evaluation, with
  >primary emphasis on benchmarking; that is, the systematic comparison of
  >competing computer systems on the basis of standardized programs.
  >Typical topics are:
  >
  >     selection of representative loads
  >     comparison of benchmarks with load profiles from real life
  >     special properties of CPU and system benchmarks
  >     run rules for a fair comparison of systems
  >     benchmarks as optimization targets for industrial development and
  >academic research
  >     correlation of benchmark results with performance data obtained from
  >other sources.
  >
  >This list is intended to only give some examples; it is not meant to exclude
  > other topics related to benchmarking and performance measurement.
  >
  >Workshop Tradition:
  >===================
  >Traditionally, the workshop is held in an informal environment that
  > encourages free information exchange. There is no registration fee, but
  >advance reservation is necessary for space allocation planning. Although
  >there will be no advance proceedings, copies of slides for
  >distribution at the workshop are appreciated. Based on the submitted 
material,
  >authors of selected presentations will be asked to submit full
  >papers for publication in formal workshop proceedings.
  >
  >Workshop attendees are  invited to attend one or several sessions of the
  >SPEC joint meeting, which is held on the three days following the
  >workshops. An agenda with the open SPEC meetings will be made available
  >to all workshop participants.
  >
  >Workshop Coordinators:
  >======================
  >Andreas Frommer, University of Wuppertal, phone: +49-(0)202-439-2979
  >Reinhold Weicker, Siemens AG, phone: +49-(0)5251-8-12766
  >
  >For more information:
  >=====================
  >
  >      http://www.spec.org/events/specworkshop/germany/
  >
  >Or, contact the SPEC Office, email: [email-masked], phone: +1.703.331.0180
  >