[nm-wg] Performance BoF at SC'05

[Dan Gunter]

Hi all,

Jim Ferguson's email about a 3:30 meeting reminded me to let you all 
know about this related workshop, occurring earlier the same day:

Grid Applications and Performance BoF

SC|05, Tuesday November 15th, 12:15-13:15, room 615-616

The SC|05 Grid Applications and Performance BoF is being held to 
facilitate discussion between application scientists and performance 
tool developers over the performance needs of applications and how tool 
developers can help satisfy those needs.

Applications are being slowly adapted to run over multiple 
administrative domains in a coordinated manner, but seldom achieve even 
a fraction of the performance possible with their underlying systems. 
This is in part due to users rarely knowing what performance could be 
achieved, which in turn is mainly caused by a lack of data from which 
estimates of baseline performance can be formulated. Without such 
estimates it is not possible to compare current application performance 
with that achievable through some degree of tuning.

The BoF follows a successful Third International Grid Performance 
Workshop at which application scientists and tool developers joined to 
identify recommendations for future work. The workshop findings are 
summarised in the workshop report 
<http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~schopf/GPW2005/report.pdf>http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~schopf/GPW2005/report.pdf 
and represent possible discussion topics for the BoF.

-Dan