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Hi all, just a quick reminder that we will have a quarterly call tomorrow at 11am CST. Please send in any agenda items or questions that you would like to add. I've listed a draft agenda below.<br>
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-Phil<br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Argobots 1.0 was released beginning of April</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Better serialization implemented (no code change needed for users)</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-
</span><span style="font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Preparing for a transition to the Cereal serialization library</span></li></ul>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Expect a Mercury 2.0 release soon</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- last pending update is a variation on addr_lookup() that completes immediately (no asychronous callback)</span></li></ul>
<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Expect a subset of Mochi packages (probably Margo, Thallium, and abt-io) to be upstreamed in spack shortly after</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Philip Davis of Rutgers encountered a problem getting the right libfabric provider to activate on a particular platform</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- look out for the FI_PROVIDER environment variable; it can be used to force the use of a particular provider in libfabric</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- could be used by some MPI implementations to control fabric use, inadvertently forcing Mochi to use a different provider than expected</span></li></ul>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Work in progress<br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- ongoing work on tuning, with a focus on Summit</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- in particular, working on improving small access size performance and understanding memory registration costs</span></li></ul>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Sonata (json document store database)</span></div>
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