itaps-parallel ITAPS bootcamp

[Tim Tautges]

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Lori, I'll check on the call-in facilities.

- tim

Lori A. Diachin wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Yes, Mark is correct.  The dates are firm as Oct 14-16 (Wed-Fri), 2009 
> at Argonne National Lab.  Tim sent out the visitor registration 
> information this morning for access to ANL.  Hopefully we'll be in the 
> new building and Tim will send out a room number when it's available.
> 
> We will start at 1 pm on Wednesday and spend the first afternoon on the 
> fields discussion.  I would like to have a round robin of presentations 
> from the interested parties that focus on their ideas on:
>  - What is a field, how is it represented and used?
>  - What are the requirements of fields?
> 
> I anticipate 20-30 minutes per presentation and would like presentations 
> from at least the following groups -
> RPI, UBC, LLNL, ANL and PNL.   Others are certainly welcome to weigh in, 
> just let me know.  We will follow the presentations with discussion to 
> see if we can start to focus down on the requirements for ITAPS fields 
> and the process we will use to move forward.  Again, I anticipate using 
> something similar to what has worked in the past - a small subgroup 
> creates the requirements document; that is discussed and agreed to, then 
> interfaces can iteratively be defined; largely via telecon.  This 
> discussion should conclude by noon on Thursday.
> 
> After lunch on Thursday, I'd like to do a similar set of activities for 
> the software quality issues.  The primary concern here is how to ensure 
> that the ITAPS "product" of interoperable software is robust and more 
> automatically tested.  Right now, it's fairly ad hoc and could be 
> working much better.  I would like to hear brief presentations from each 
> site on the processes they use now, what works well, and what their 
> thoughts are for improving our processes.  In particular, I'd like to 
> hear from SNL, LLNL, ANL, UBC, RPI, and PNL at least; perhaps others.  
> Again we will follow this with discussion and an 'agreed to' plan that 
> we will implement over the course of the next 3 months or so. 
> The meeting will be adjourned by noon on Friday so folks can get home 
> for the weekend.
> 
> For those that cannot attend in person, I would like to have telecon 
> facilities available for call-in.  Tim, can this be arranged?
> 
> Hope this helps clarify the bootcamp activities.  Please let me know if 
> you have any questions.
> 
> Lori
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Miller wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just following up on this. Do we have a location yet? It looks like a
>> very coarse schedule is
>>
>> Wed: Fields
>> Thu: Fields am, SQE pm
>> Fri: SQE pm
>>
>> Would it make sense to maybe refine this agenda a bit? As for the Fields
>> discussion, is the main purpose just to get our ideas/issues out on the
>> table and sort of brainstorm?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 18:51 -0700, Lori A. Diachin wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> After learning that the September timeframe didn't work for many 
>>> folks, I have rescheduled the bootcamp for October 14-16, 2009 
>>> (Wed-Friday).  We'll focus on Fields on Wed and perhaps part of 
>>> Thursday and software on Thursday and Friday.  We will start at 9 am 
>>> on Wed and conclude by noon on Friday so folks can get home for the 
>>> weekend.
>>>
>>> Ideally we will hold the meeting at Argonne in Chicago - Tim, will 
>>> this work for you?  If not, we'll determine an alternate location - 
>>> but please save the dates.
>>>
>>> Lori
>>>
>>> At 10:44 AM 7/31/2009, Lori A. Diachin wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> We would like to hold a bootcamp in mid-September to discuss two 
>>>> primary topics - Fields and Software processes; the dates will be 
>>>> Sept 9-Sept 11 (ending at noon) in Chicago which works for a 
>>>> significant subset of us - and I'm hoping will work for most.  We 
>>>> plan to spend the first day, Wednesday, on Fields where our goal is 
>>>> to find out what everyone thinks about what a Field is, how it 
>>>> works, what its requirements are.  We will have presentations in the 
>>>> morning (their length will depend on how many are interested in 
>>>> talking) and we will spend the afternoon discussing, and hopefully 
>>>> arriving at, a common terminology that we can use going forward.  
>>>> The second day and half will be spent on improving our software 
>>>> engineering practices to ensure our software is more robust.
>>>> As a team, we need to settle on a set of best practices and then 
>>>> implement them.  Please come prepared with ideas about what you 
>>>> think would work well for the ITAPS team to improve the automation 
>>>> of our software build/test/documentation process.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know ASAP if you can attend this meeting.  Based on a 
>>>> conversation this morning I have Mark S., Tim and Carl all in 
>>>> agreement with these dates.  For the fields discussion I would like 
>>>> to have Mark M and Harold also present if at all possible (and 
>>>> others if interested).
>>>> For the software discussion on Thursday and Friday morning, I would 
>>>> like Mark M, Tim and/or Jason, Karen and/or Vitus, Ken and/or Luo, 
>>>> Xiaolin and/or Ryan, and Harold if at all possible.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Lori
>>>>       
>>> =====================================================
>>> Lori Freitag Diachin
>>> Center for Applied Scientific Computing          Tel:  925-422-7130
>>> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory         Fax: 925-423-1173
>>> P.O. Box 808, L-365                                      Email: 
>>> diachin2 at llnl.gov
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>>>     
> 

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