I got a bunch of responses on the Doodle, but we'd like to make a decision in
the Very Near Future. Please reply to the doodle by COB today -- thanks:
http://doodle.com/yremrx62e2dvddkf
On Apr 9, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
> Ralph and I were talking about the upcoming OMPI dev meeting yesterday.
>
> SHORT VERSION
> =============
>
> Let's have a proper 2-3 day standalone face-to-face OMPI dev meeting, not
> coupled with the MPI Forum meeting. Use the following doodle to pick what
> weeks are good for you:
>
> http://doodle.com/yremrx62e2dvddkf
>
> ***NOTE*** The week of May 5 is a possibility, so please respond by COB
> tomorrow, Thursday, 10 Apr 2014.
>
> MORE DETAIL
> ===========
>
> Over the last few OMPI dev meetings, we've been trying to consolidate travel
> by piggybacking the OMPI dev meetings with MPI Forum meetings. This usually
> means that we start the OMPI dev meeting at 2pm on a Thursday, and finish
> around noon the next day.
>
> A few notes about this scheme:
>
> - The MPI Forum now only meets 4x a year (instead 6x a year)
> - The MPI Forum now meets for 4 days (instead of 3)
> - This allows for a 24-hour OMPI dev meeting (Thurs ~noon - Fri ~noon)
> - As a result, we try to compress a zillion topics into 24 hours... with
> varying success
> - By Thursday, we're all pretty brain-fried by Thursday from all the Forum
> discussions
>
> We therefore propose having a standalone, multi-day OMPI dev meeting. This
> will let us focus on OMPI stuff, give each topic its proper amount of time,
> and allow us to not be brain-fried from Forum arguments all week. It also
> makes it more worthwhile for European attendees (e.g., from Germany and
> Israel).
>
> The Big Topic for the upcoming meeting in thread safety. I suggest having a
> 3 day meeting, and including some coding time (to work towards thread safety)
> in the agenda so that we can actually *do some work* to prototype/prove out
> some of the discussions we have in person.
>
> Let's pick a week (see the doodle above), and then iron our the specifics in
> that week (e.g., start Monday or Tuesday, go for 2 days or 3, etc.).
>
> *** The week of May 5 is a possibility, which is only a month away -- so
> please answer the Doodle by COB tomorrow, Thursday, April 10th, 2014.
>
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> Jeff Squyres
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