itaps-parallel Phone conf?

[Tim Tautges]

I'm fine either day too.

- tim

Vitus Leung wrote:
> Lori,
> 
> I am available either day.
> 
> Vitus
> 
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:48 -0600, 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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