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• Alex has done some work to resolve the rate vs base discussion (more to follow in later section).
• Martin's Barcelona machine is too unstable to benchmark. He suggest waiting for the third generation of barcelona CPUs.
• Experiment contacts have been using the Wiki and the mailing list to co-ordinate bechmarking. Franco is having difficulties with the mailing list. Helge will inquire.
• Now using indico for agenda and minutes.

• Helge proposed that experiments submit a figure of merit which is positively increasing with machine performance. For example events per second.
• Peter Hristov asked if the same random seed should be used on all cores. This was discussed but the feeling was that if the number of events was large enough (100+ for example) then the random seed would be irrelevant. However this is important to check.
  

LHCb (Hubert Degaudenzi):

• working to find a reproducible estimator
• he has some results but they are not reproducible at the moment.

Alice (Peter Hristov):

• Asked question about random seeds (see above)

Atlas (Franco Brasolin):

• Has results which are posted to the wiki.

CMS (Gabriele Benelli):

• Gabriele had another meeting that he had to attend
• Peter Wegner is ready for Gabriele to test his system.

• Alex investigated the SPEC code and had some interaction with Cloyce Spradling of SPEC. It turns out that the threads of SPEC rate are not specifically synchronized but do suffer "de-facto synchronization" as a result of the SPEC implementation. (see his mail [requires password] on the list archives).
• Therefore the priority should be on using multiple spec base, and collect spec rate data where ever possible.
• Thanks to Michele for pushing the issue so we discovered that SPEC rate is not explicitly synchronized.
• Michele noted that it's important that we note the distinction of the multiple spec base runs when explaining to vendors and showing out results.

• Gabriele to try out DESY system.
• Further work by all experiments.

• Experiment checkpoint meeting Feb 20th, 16:00 UTC
• Planing meeting Feb 27, 16:00 UTC