itaps-parallel Today's phone conf

[Devine, Karen D.]

Here are the notes from today's phone conference.

-  We discussed Carl's proposal to overload the mesh instance argument with
partition instances and/or part handles to perform set operations.  Jason
expressed concerns that the overloading would make implementing the
multiplexer difficult (at best), and would complicate the implementations as
well.  

-  Lori proposed adding partition information to the argument lists of the
existing iMesh set-based functions.  We agreed that we could change the
iMesh interface, adding partition instance and part handle arguments to
needed functions.  Serial implementations could pass NULL for these
arguments.  

-  Karen will fold this idea and other proposed syntax into the combined
document for review before the next phone conference.

-  Mark M. discussed his code that performs many parallel ITAPS functions
using the serial interface.  He can use this code to identify functionality
that is missing or extraneous in the combined document.  Mark M. commented
that the parallel interface is not yet concrete enough for pseudo-code
applications.

-  Lori discussed the agenda for the March 11 bootcamp.  This bootcamp will
be our chance to describe the parallel interface to our other ITAPS team
members, so we should have something concrete to present and, perhaps, some
pseudo-code showing how to use it.  The bootcamp will also include a
discussion of Carl's paper and a talk by Ahmed on ORNL activities.

-  The proposed time for the next phone conference is Jan 7 at 1:30 PST.
Let me know if that time doesn't work for you.