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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:
  • OSG - CPU
  • GPC - APC
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:
  • OSG - OSSC
  • GPC - APC