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SPEC Benchmarking Workshop, Paderborn, Sept. 14, 1999
"Benchmarking Computer Systems:SPEC Meets Researchers and Benchmark Users"

Update: Sept. 9,1999

Workshop Program:

Time: Tuesday, Sept. 14, 9:15 - 17:30

Location: Siemens AG, Customer Conference Center of the Computer Systems division, Paderborn, Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring.

See the map of Paderborn provided by Siemens Nixdorf. The workshop location (Siemens AG, Customer Conference Center) is the same as Siemens Nixdorf except that the entrance is at building F. Lunch will be provided by Siemens AG.

8:43 Arrival of train with Wuppertal participants (from preceding workshop day in Wuppertal), bus to Siemens
9:15 - 9:25 Welcome
9:25 - 9:35 Maurice Wilkes, Cambridge: The Architectural Background to Benchmarking
9:35 - 10:25 John Spitzer, Raycer / SPEC: SPEC's GPC Benchmarks, History and Current Topics
10:25 - 10:40 Rudi Eigenmann, Purdue Univ. / SPEC: SPEC's High Performance Benchmark Suite
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:20 Henrique Madeira, University of Coimbra (Portugal): The IFIP Working Group on Dependabilioty Benchmarking
11:20 - 11:45 Reinhold Weicker, Siemens / SPEC: SPEC's OSG Benchmarks, History and Current Topics
11:45 - 12:20 Werner Dirlewanger, Univ. Kassel: User oriented workload description as a basis for benchmarks
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch
13:20 - 14:10 Ralph Hülsenbusch and Andreas Stiller, Heise Verlag: Experiences with the SPEC CPU95 benchmarks
14:10 - 15:00 John Henning, Compaq / SPEC: The new CPU2000 benchmarks
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:45 Jürgen Schmidt, Heise Verlag: Web server performance evaluation: Linux vs. NT
15:45 - 16:15 Ingo Breker, Univ. Essen: Web server benchmarking: Evaluation of tools and results of case studies
16:15 - 16:45 Andreas Schmietendorf, Deutsche Telekomm and Univ. Magdeburg: Benchmarks in the area of distributed Java/CORBA applications
16:45 - 17:15 Laura Bertolotti, Univ. Pavia: Workload characterization for SPEC's upcoming mail server benchmark

It is expected that copies of the abstracts and of the slides will be available to the participants.

For those that can stay in Paderborn for the evening, the following is offered:

18:00 - 19:00 Optional walk through the city center of Paderborn: Cathedral, City Hall, the 25 springs of the river Pader. Walk ending at the restaurant.
19:00 Dinner reservation at the ”Schützenhof” restaurant, Schützenplatz (about 10 min walking north of the city center)