itaps-parallel ITAPS short course at IMR 2010?

[Vitus Leung]

I would be willing to do something on iZoltan.

Vitus

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 13:35 -0600, Mark Shephard wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > --
> > scientist in data visualization - facilitator for sustainable communities
> > http://downtownfarm.net   925-456-4461   http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/
> > 
> > -----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
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> scientist in data visualization - facilitator for sustainable communities
> >>> http://*downtownfarm.net   925-456-4461   http://*www.*cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> > 
> > 
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