itaps-parallel Phone conference and updated document

[Lori A. Diachin]

Hi All,

The phone number for today's telecon is the same as always:

Phone Number: 866-213-1863
Participate code: 956751

Talk to you in a bit.

Lori

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.
>
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