Benchmark WG Meeting

Wednesday 19 Mar 2008, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

31-1-030 (CERN)

Helge Meinhard (CERN-IT)

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CPU Benchmark WG Meeting Notes, March 19, 2008


Present:
Alex Iribarren, Helge Meinhard, CERN/IT
Franco Brasolin, CERN/ATLAS
Hubert Degaudenzi, CERN/LHCb
Peter Hristov CERN/ALICE,
Michele Michelotto, INFN Padova
Gabriele Benelli CERN/CMS
Peter Wegner, DESY Zeuthen
Martin Bly, RAL
Ian Gable, U Victoria

1. Comments on minutes from Feb 12

• no comments

2. Review of Action items

• Ian has added individual areas for Experiments to upload their results
• Gabriele has results now posted to HEPiX CPU WIki (more info below)

3. Progress from experiments.

Peter Hristov (ALICE)

• Finished work on lxbench 01-02, will start on lxbench06-07 after meeting and will finish the rest as soon as possible
• He is having problem with Caspur Wiki Login

Franco Brasolin (ATLAS)

• For current results please see the wiki ATLAS Results page.
• Is waiting for ATLAS Release 14 which will be made available as a kit for external sites.
• He will rerun benchmarks with the 14 release.
• Peter Wegner will run with Release 14 at DESY as well

Gabriele Benelli (CMS)

• Has complete running on all machines. Please see his results for details.
• Has not had an opportunity to come to any conclusions.
• Has used 7 different types of process referred to as standard candles within CMS.
• He would like to be able to put HTML directly into the wiki.
• WIll consider rerunning the benchmarks on CMS software release 2.0.0 which will be more widely available.

Hubert Degaudenzi (LHCb)

• Now has simulation times reproducible within 2% and is read to run on lxbench machines.

4. Action items

• Ian to investigate easy posting of html to wiki to save the pain of wiki syntax conversion.
  
• Peter Wegner to run ATLAS code release 14 at DESY.
• Peter Hristov to resolve Wiki login with Manfred and to finish running on remaining lxbench machines.
• Hubert Degaudenzi to run on lxbench machines.
• Helge to forward slides from upcoming presentation.

5. Next Meeting

• Will be held April 2, 16:00 UTC.