itaps-parallel ITAPS short course at IMR 2010?

[Mark Shephard]

Martin,

I think it would be a good idea to do this with a focus on parallel.

Mark

Isenburg, Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Shall I now go ahead and promise the IMR committee that we will deliver a short course that focuses on the technical aspects of ITAPS? I myself would happily volunteer to give a short (10 - 15 min) tutorial about the parallel aspect of smoothing with mesquite ...
> 
> I need to give them feedback in the coming days. Anything in particular that I should mention?
> 
> Martin
> 
> PS: Mark your calendar: IMR 2010 will in Chattanooga, TN from Oct 3rd - Oct 6th
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Shephard [mailto:shephard at scorec.rpi.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:45 PM
> To: Devine, Karen D
> Cc: Isenburg, Martin; itaps-parallel at lists.mcs.anl.gov; Mark Beall
> Subject: Re: itaps-parallel ITAPS short course at IMR 2010?
> 
> Karen,
> 
> I have lectured a number of times in the IMR short courses. Typically 
> most of the lectures are pretty high level, not much technical detail. I 
> some of the stuff was getting a bit old. Thus I expect they are looking 
> for something that is a bit more technically specific, based on Martin's 
> comments somewhere between a detailed tutorial and a more high level 
> overview thing.
> 
> I would suggest something not dissimilar to the key technical parts of a 
> iMeshP presentation. That is to overall design of iMeshP and why that 
> its design. Then go into a bit more detail to discuss how we implemented 
> the design. From there talking about various meshing services, 
> particularly Zoltan, and its use would be good. Then including 
> information on parallel services as you indicated below would be good.
> 
> Mark
> 
> Devine, Karen D wrote:
>> All:  I don't know all the history of ITAPS or IMR, but this invitation is a
>> big deal, isn't it?  If we want to, we can certainly say a lot about
>> parallel mesh refinement, scalable highly parallel computing, parallel mesh
>> quality improvement, and load balancing.
>>
>> Martin:  Can you send the detail for IMR 2010?  The web page is not yet
>> available, I think.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/9/10 2:27 PM, "Martin Isenburg" <isenburg1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> The International Meshing Roundtable 2010 committee members (I am one of them)
>>> asked me to tickle you in the right spot so that we have an ITAPS short course
>>> at IMR 2010 in Chattanooga, TN. However, they want me to point out that this
>>> is to be focused on the parallel algorithms in ITAPS rather than becoming a
>>> Tupperware party for promoting ITAPS.
>>>
>>> Is there any interest? And can we deliver what they want?
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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>>> scientist in data visualization - facilitator for sustainable communities
>>> http://*downtownfarm.net   925-456-4461   http://*www.*cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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