AG presentations

[Jennifer Teig von Hoffman]

Oops, "information" should have been "informal".

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:

> I agree with Leslie too, and Ginny. "Booking" a node is very different
> from booking a conference room. We've been handling these things on a very
> information basis here at BU, and for the most part it's working out okay
> but requires a level of constant collaboration that may not be possible as
> the number of node-users scales up.
> 
> I'd like to volunteer to be on the sub-group Leslie suggested.
> 
> - Jennifer
> 
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Ginny Hudak-David wrote:
> 
> > I agree with Leslie that we need to come up with a scheme to handle AG
> > events. And her suggestion to get a small group together to address some of
> > the questions is a good one.
> > 
> > Jim Farrar and I have talked a little about this, which came up when I
> > booked the NCSA node for the Chautauquas. I wasn't sure how to do that,
> > whom to contact, and what it meant to "book" the node.
> > 
> > --ginny david
> >   NCSA Scientific Computing
> > 
> > At 10:56 AM 4/14/00 -0400, Leslie Southern wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >This thread brings up some interesting issues that hopefully we can
> > >resolve and even define some sort of process. The original workshop was
> > >planned by AHPCC and updated to include NCSA instruction. Boston and OSC
> > >will be "host" sites and have announced it to their broader communities. 
> > >
> > >The responsibilities fall on all sites. Each site needs to plan their
> > >local arrangements based on their level of participation (i.e.,
> > >instruction, support, and audience). The "sponsoring" site needs to
> > >reserve the AG and provide materials.
> > >
> > >Perhaps the training group and the AG deployment committee can get
> > >together and work out the details and come up with a better game plan.
> > >Often the training folks are not the same as the AG folks, and this is a
> > >first for all of us.
> > >
> > >-Leslie
> > >
> > >
> > >Ernie Herrera wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> This is a training activity, at very least the training POC should make the
> > >> arrangements or ensure that coordination occurs. But you're right a
> > complete
> > >> schedule description is good.
> > >> 
> > >> Jim Farrar wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> > After the hub-bub of the president visit, we probably need to set up some
> > >> > kind of system to inform all sites of events when they will have local
> > >> > presenters.  I have just been informed that I will have a local presenter
> > >> > on Tuesday the 18th for Fast Fourier Transforms and the FFTW library
> > >> > workshop.  This is a surprise to me.  No one here had even informed me
> > that
> > >> > they wanted to see the presentation let alone be a presenter for it.
> > There
> > >> > must be a way to keep everyone informed of these things.
> > >> 
> > >> --
> > >> 
> > >> Ernest D. Herrera
> > >> Associate Director
> > >> High Performance Computing Education and Research Center
> > >> University of New Mexico
> > >> 505.277.8330
> > >
> > >-- 
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> > >Leslie Southern                                       1224 Kinnear Road
> > >Ohio Supercomputer Center                            Columbus, OH 43212
> > >leslie at osc.edu                                      Phone: 614/292-9367  
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