General - Overall schedule - Workshop
program - Hotels - Travel
Update: Sept. 9,1999
SPEC Benchmarking Workshop and Business Meetings
Paderborn, Germany, September 14-17, 1999
Overall Schedule
All meetings, except for those scheduled on Monday, will be held at
Siemens AG (Entry F1), Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1, Paderborn. See the travel information page for location details.
Monday, September 13
First part of SPEC workshop, "Benchmarking Parallel and
High-Performance Computing Systems", Wuppertal. For more
information, see Web
page provided by the Scientific Computing Group of the Department of
Mathematics, Wuppertal University.
For those attending the Wuppertal workshop, a joint train ride from
Wuppertal to Paderborn in the morning of Sept. 14 will be arranged by the
Wuppertal workshop organizers, leaving Wuppertal at 6:49, arriving
Paderborn at 8:43. The Wuppertal hotel is just a few minutes away from
the train station, the train has breakfast service in the dining car. A
bus will be provided for transfer from the Paderborn railway station to
the workshop location, Siemens AG.
Tuesday, September 14
08:43
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Arrival of train with the Wuppertal participants, bus transfer to
Siemens
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09:15 - 17:15
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Second part of SPEC workshop, "Benchmarking Computer Systems:
SPEC Meets Researchers and Benchmark Users", Paderborn, hosted
by Siemens AG and SPEC. For a detailed program, see Web page with program. Lunch will be provided
by Siemens AG.
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17:30
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Bus transfer from Siemens to the Paderborn hotels
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18:00 - 19:00
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Optional walk through the city center of Paderborn: Cathedral, City
Hall, the 25 springs of the river Pader. Walk ending at the
restaurant.
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19:00
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Dinner reservation at the Schützenhof restaurant,
street address: Schützenplatz (about 10 min walking north of the
city center)
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Wednesday, September 15
09:00 - 12:00
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Parallel subcommittee meetings for:
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OSG - Mailserver
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OSG - Java
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OSG - SMT
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GPC - GPC
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12:00 - 13:00
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Lunch in the Siemens cafeteria.
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13:00 - 14:30
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Parallel subcommittee meetings for:
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OSG - Mailserver
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OSG - Java
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OSG - CPU
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GPC - GPC
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14:30 - 15:00
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Coffee break (downstairs, outside the meeting rooms)
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15:00 - 17:30
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Joint meeting of SPEC's OSG, HPG, and GPC: "Policies and
Procedures of the Different SPEC Groups - Opportunities for Synergy,
Reasons for Diversity", Moderator: Walter Bays. Upstairs (2nd
floor, room BT1)
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18:30
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Bus transfer from the Paderborn hotels to the restaurant.
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19:00 - 21:00
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SPEC dinner in the restaurant "Fischteiche", street
address: Zu den Fischteichen
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21:00
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Bus transfer from the restaurant back to the Paderborn hotels.
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Thursday, September 16
09:00 - 12:00
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Parallel subcommittee meetings for:
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OSG - Mailserver
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GPC - OPC
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HPG - HPG
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12:00 - 13:00
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Lunch in the Siemens cafeteria
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13:00 - 17:00
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Parallel subcommittee meetings for:
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OSG - CPU
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GPC - OPC
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HPG - HPG
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17:15 - 19:00
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Optional (please register in advance on Tuesday): Guided tour
(English-language explanations) through the exhibition "799 A.D.
Art and Culture of the Karolinger Time - Charlemagne and Pope Leo III
in Paderborn". Highly recommended.
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19:00
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Dinner reservation in the historical "Ratskeller", basement
below City Hall (Rathaus)
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Friday, September 17
09:00 - 12:00
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Parallel subcommittee meetings for:
and possibly an OSSC meeting, if the CPU subcommittee finishes early.
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12.00 - 13:00
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Lunch in the Siemens cafeteria.
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13:00 - 16:00
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Parallel subcommittee meetings for:
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