From: David Skinner (dskinner_at_nersc.gov)
Date: 06/12/2001
Please direct your responses to dskinner_at_nersc_dot_gov
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Dear Colleague:
NERSC has recently launched the NERSC-4 procurement. The goal of this
activity is to procure the next in the series of high-end supercomputers
for NERSC clients.
In preparation for this procurement, we are soliciting suggestions for
application benchmark programs. Benchmarks that we select may be given
to prospective vendors as part of instructions for preparing a response
to the Request for Proposals, in the event that we proceed with a formal
solicitation. Other benchmarks may be selected to be part of negotiated
statements of work with successful bidders.
We seek benchmarks with the following characteristics:
1. Representative of a class of application and algorithm that is
typical of those expected to be run in the future on NERSC high-end
platforms.
2. Scalable to large numbers of processors (256 to 2048).
3. Written in standard-conforming Fortran-90 or C, with MPI constructs
for node-to-node communication.
4. Portable to different vendor platforms with minor effort.
5. Self-contained -- does not require third party software (other than
certain non-commercial libraries supported by NERSC).
6. Reasonably concise (preferably < 10000 lines) and cleanly written.
7. Distributable to potential vendors.
8. Accompanied with supporting documentation on the general algorithm,
usage, installation and the scientific relevance.
If you know of a candidate benchmark, please contact dskinner_at_nersc_dot_gov.
Yours truly,
William T. C. Kramer
Head, NERSC High Performance Computing Department