Applications are slowly being adapted to run over multiple administrative domains in a coordinated way, but they rarely achieve even a fraction of the possible performance of the underlying systems. In part this is because users very rarely know what performance they could achieve. There is no current data or infrastructure to formulate estimates of baseline performance with which to determine the difference between how an application is currently running and what is possible with some tuning.
Following on the success of last years workshop, this two-day working meeting will focus on the needs of three applications as use cases, and tools to help understand their problems, with the plan to extrapolate to other application use in the closing sessions. The result of the workshop will be a white paper on the state of the field and recommendations for future work.
The workshop will be held at the UK National eScience Centre
The workshop will be attended by approximately 45 participants are expected.
Workshop Steering Committee:
Contact for details: Jennifer M. Schopf jms@mcs.anl.gov