itaps-parallel ITAPS tutorial submission for SC08

Tim Tautges tautges at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Apr 8 14:30:14 CDT 2008


Yeah, that's a risk, so we need the other option too (you can finesse 
the autotools stuff to not need the autotools stack with a bit of extra 
work).

- tim

Devine, Karen D wrote:
> Tim:  Thanks for your detailed review of the proposal.  Just one response
> from me....
> 
> On 4/8/08 10:48 AM, "Tim Tautges" <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
>> Comments:
>> ...
>>
>> Facilities: Need to find out if any are available from SC08, maybe from
>> vendors (e.g. sanitized laptops with some standard linux installation).
>>   Should also make sure to encourage attendees to bring own linux
>> laptops and try installing tools there, so they can take them home with
>> them.
>>
> 
> My fear with using attendees' laptops is that we spend too much time with
> configuration and building (e.g., does the attendee have CMAKE or the right
> version of autotools?) or that some build/configuration issue arises that we
> can't resolve in the tutorial time.  I liked Lori's idea of having guest
> accounts where we can control the environment and set it up in advance.  Of
> course, we should have CDs with the appropriate software available for
> attendees to take home.
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> 

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