itaps-parallel Phone conference and updated document

[Xiaolin Li]

Karen,

Thanks, sorry we missed the previous meeting. Ryan and I will 
participate this time for sure.

Xiaolin

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 14:51 -0700, Devine, Karen D. wrote:
> Reminder:  The parallel interface subcommittee will meet on Dec 6 at 11am
> PST.  An updated Combined Document is attached.  We'll start the phone
> conference with the "Not-Yet-Discussed, Unresolved Questions" section.
> 
> Details of the updates in the document:
> -  Updated the background and terminology section to reflect recent mesh
> instance discussions.  Added assumption that a partition covers at most one
> mesh instance.
> 
> -  Added an EntitySet Functionality section, based on the results of our
> mesh instance discussion.  If multiple meshes are stored in a single mesh
> instance, an application needs to be able to perform global (with respect to
> a partition) operations on members of an entity set.
> 
> -  Summarized questions resolved at the Nov. 28 phone conference.   See the
> "comments and resolved issues" section.  Updated various parts of the
> document to reflect the decisions we made.
> 
> -  Added a "Discussed but unresolved question" section that mostly outlines
> our Nov. 15 phone conference.
> 
> -  Moved questions we have not yet discussed to the "Not-yet-discussed"
> section.
> 
> -  Added entity functionality for obtaining the number of copies of an
> entity in a partition and the remote handles of copies of entities in a
> partition.  (See entity functionality section.)
> 
> -  Removed many references to MPI from the text (as requested by Mark
> Miller).  The initial implementation is still MPI based.
> 
> -  Tried to make terminology more consistent as requested by Mark Miller.
>