itaps-parallel Phone conf?

[Lori A. Diachin]

Hi All,

It looks like Friday Oct 10 is the best day.  I propose 1 pm pacific (4 pm 
eastern).  Does this work for all the necessary parties?

Here is the LLNL telecon number:  866-914-3976    The passcode is 662912#

Lori

At 01:48 PM 10/1/2008, 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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