pre-GDB:
- Currently planned for April 2018 (2018-04-10)
- Summary talk to GDB the day after (2018-04-11)
List of proposed subjects, to be discussed today, in order to prepare the agenda
Comments and proposals for other subjects or sub-topics are welcome.
Identify contributors to cover each topics are
- Identification and features of HEP reference workloads
- work strictly related to the System performance modelling WG
- - studies of SPEC2017
- several presentations, potentially from independent studies
- comparison with HEP job mixes.
- - effects of Meltdown/Spectre
- as measured in dedicated HW as well as on production clusters after few months that patches have been deployed
- Performance evaluation in bare metal servers Vs cloud environments (on premises and/or commercial clouds)
- - Benchmarking of GPU (GPU adoption is acquiring momentum!)
- workloads experiments plan to run on GPUs (ML, tracking, etc)
- benchmarks for GPUs (and their correlation with 5.1)
- - Benchmarking in HPC environment
- when opportunistic usage for WLCG
- when running dedicated HPC workloads