1)  Upcoming events and contributions from our WG:

• GDB meeting:  April 12th
  • Working group status update
  •  GDB is informed that the work is in progress, but the time scale is too short to give a definitive recommendation.
  • A longer discussion will take place during the WLCG Workshop (see next point)
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• HEPiX Spring 2017 Workshop, 24-28 April 2017, Budapest (Hungary)
  • Summary report about the WG activity
  • in addition: a number of talks from other members of the WG (e.g. from A. Sciaba')
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• 2017 WLCG Workshop (University of Manchester) 
  • Agenda still under preparation https://indico.cern.ch/event/609911/timetable/#20170619
  • The plan is to have a benchmarking session/discussion where to address the two subjects: 
    • fast benchmarks for pilots, clouds, etc
    • next generation of HepSPEC benchmarks
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2) Next WG meeting (April 7th) will be dedicated to the review of the results for the GDB report

• Expect short report from all experiments’ representatives 
  • Statement about the correlation of DB12 and the experiment applications (sim, digi, reco)
  • Approach (in place or suggested) to enable reproducible studies of correlation among experiments’ workloads and next generation of benchmarks (HepSPECxx)
    • Document procedures, possibly share code (e.g. via CVMFS) of test applications

3) Documentation and Action list    

• A number of new sections have been introduced in the twiki
  1. Information needed to run passive benchmark  https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/HEPIX/CpuBenchmark#Passive_Benchmark
  2. Available resources for benchmarking activity (CERN, GridKa)
  3. DB12 Vs python version  
     • summarised already in email thread, now is in https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/HEPIX/DB12VsPythonVersion
     • need to reach a conclusion about this aspect: do we need to fix the python version to run DB12?
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• For the site representatives and the experiment representatives: Please remember to fill the information in our Twiki https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/HEPIX/CpuBenchmark
  • ​Thanks to who already did it    

4) AOB

• Extremely interesting talk of M. Guerri last Friday at the IT Technical Forum:
  • Title:  "Understanding applications’ performance”
    • aka understanding (i) DB12 magic boost and (ii) Intel Haswell core performance
  • The slides and the recording are available in indico https://indico.cern.ch/event/612774/