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
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.