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 | Arrival of train with the Wuppertal participants, bus transfer to
            Siemens | 
        
          | 09:15 - 17:15 | 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. | 
        
          | 17:30 | Bus transfer from Siemens to the Paderborn hotels | 
        
          | 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,
            street address: Schützenplatz (about 10 min walking north of the
            city center) | 
      
      
        Wednesday, September 15
      
      
      
      
        
          | 09:00 - 12:00 | Parallel subcommittee meetings for: 
              
                OSG - Mailserver
              
                OSG - Java
              
                OSG - SMT
              
                GPC - GPC
               | 
        
          | 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch in the Siemens cafeteria. | 
        
          | 13:00 - 14:30 | Parallel subcommittee meetings for: 
              
                OSG - Mailserver
              
                OSG - Java
              
                OSG - CPU
              
                GPC - GPC
               | 
        
          | 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee break (downstairs, outside the meeting rooms) | 
        
          | 15:00 - 17:30 | 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) | 
        
          | 18:30 | Bus transfer from the Paderborn hotels to the restaurant. | 
        
          | 19:00 - 21:00 | SPEC dinner in the restaurant "Fischteiche", street
            address: Zu den Fischteichen | 
        
          | 21:00 | Bus transfer from the restaurant back to the Paderborn hotels. | 
      
      
        Thursday, September 16
      
      
      
      
        
          | 09:00 - 12:00 | Parallel subcommittee meetings for: 
              
                OSG - Mailserver
              
                GPC - OPC
              
                HPG - HPG
               | 
        
          | 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch in the Siemens cafeteria | 
        
          | 13:00 - 17:00 | Parallel subcommittee meetings for: 
              
                OSG - CPU
              
                GPC - OPC
              
                HPG - HPG
               | 
        
          | 17:15 - 19:00 | 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. | 
        
          | 19:00 | Dinner reservation in the historical "Ratskeller", basement
            below City Hall (Rathaus) | 
      
      
        Friday, September 17
      
      
      
      
        
          | 09:00 - 12:00 | Parallel subcommittee meetings for: 
            
            and possibly an OSSC meeting, if the CPU subcommittee finishes early. | 
        
          | 12.00 - 13:00 | Lunch in the Siemens cafeteria. | 
        
          | 13:00 - 16:00 | Parallel subcommittee meetings for: |