itaps-parallel Phone conf?

[Lori A. Diachin]

Yes - this is a good idea.  Let's try to find a time next week to talk.  
It looks like I will be going to Chicago Monday - Thursday.  Can folks 
talk on Friday, Oct 10 or the following Monday, Oct 13?  I'd like to 
have all tutorial presenters participate and any others who are 
contributing to the hands on exercises.

Thanks,
Lori

Onkar Sahni wrote:
> Lori,
>
> It will be good a idea to schedule a phone conf. for ITAPS SC08 tutorial,
> especially discussing hands-on part of it.
>
> In this regard, we have been trying to outline our contribution to
> hands-on portion of ITAPS tutorial in SC08 at Austin. We specifically
> discussed (among RPI teams members) about mesh-adaptation service built on
> iMeshP (and iMesh).
>
> We can provide a demonstration on a parallel case that starts with coarse
> mesh, carries out non-uniform mesh-refinement and re-partition the refined
> mesh (using Zoltan's dynamic service). We have discussed for such a
> demonstration case along with Karen and Vitus too.
>
> We would like to know if you have any comments on it. We would also like
> to know if you have any suggestions on what kind of other potentially
> useful demonstrations we can provide, for example, demonstration involving
> more mesh-modification operations (such as edge swaps and/or collapses) or
> general set of communication utilities based on mesh-entities through
> iMeshP that are useful from an analysis code (FE code) point of view.
>
> We want to mention that we would like to have something more than
> elementary examples (something more than mesh queries or samples of
> ghosting). There are two major reasons to reserve more time for somewhat
> advanced examples:
>
> (a) Lot of audience will gain new things from advanced examples with
> specific focus on parallel/iMeshP and they hopefully will not feel like
> yet another set of software libraries for meshing, geometry and fields.
> More importantly I think it would be good if they form opinion (after the
> tutorial) on ITAPS as provider of necessary interoperable tools (that have
> been implemented to good extent) for large-scale simulations and are
> currently missing from their suite of existing tools.
>
> (b) Examples falling under elementary category can possibly be
> covered to good extent in documents (like previous presentations and/or
> hand-outs) and do not necessarily require hands-on session.
>
> Please let us know your inputs as it would help to outline our
> contribution for hands-on part of ITAPS tutorial in SC08.
>
> Thanks,
> Onkar
>
>
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>> Lori:
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>> Do you have time for a phone conf on the SC08 tutorial?  Questions have
>> arisen about the timing of the presentation (how long will we spend in
>> each
>> part) and both the content and length of time available for the hands-on
>> sessions.
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>> Oct 7 and 9 are bad for me, but other days next week are good.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Karen
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