itaps-parallel Phone conf?

[Xiaolin Li]

Both are OK for me.

Xiaolin

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 13:48 -0700, Lori A. Diachin wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >   
> >> Lori:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Oct 7 and 9 are bad for me, but other days next week are good.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> Karen
> >>
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