ParkBench Committee Meeting

Dear Colleague,

The ParkBench (Parallel Benchmark Working Group)
will meet in Knoxville, Tennessee on 
May 9th, 1997.

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. The rate about $79.00/night.
You can download a postscript map of the area by looking at:

You can rent a car or get a cab from the airport to the hotel.

We should plan to start at 9:00 am May 9th and finish about 5:00 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:

Thursday October 31th
 9:00 - 12.00  Full group meeting
12.00 -  1.30  Lunch
 1.30 -  5.00  Full group meeting


Please send us your suggestions for the agenda.


The objectives for the group are:
1.   To establish a comprehensive set of parallel benchmarks that is generally
     accepted by both users and vendors of parallel system.

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

3.   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-hpf@cs.utk.edu          HPF subcommittee



Jack Dongarra 
Erich Strohmaier