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PTP/meetings/February 2012
February 2012 Meeting
Date: February 14, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM EDT
Call in information:
Toll Free (US): 888-426-6840
Toll Free (Germany): 0800-000-1018
Toll Free (UK): 0800-368-0638
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Passcode: 2221402
Agenda
- Overall project, releases, etc.
- Next builds, releases
- 5.0 Indigo - 5.0.5 outlook - Indigo SR2 RC4+2 (final build) is tomorrow (Feb 15); next week is quiet week for mirrors to replicate; GA is Feb 24
- 6.0 Juno - M6+2 is Mar 20
- Status and location of builds now on Hudson (Juno, Indigo, and 4.1)
- Download stats - note here
- Git status
- Reference:
- CDT git tutorial and docs available at PTP/environment_setup/git - including problems of things we can't do with git we could do with CVS
- Developer's environment setup for 6.0 has been mostly updated for git: PTP/environment_setup_60
- Bug to track: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=349695.
- Discuss problems/solutions
- Reference:
- Next builds, releases
- Status Reports
- PTP Core/debug
- RDT and remote status
- Synchronized Projects
- Resource Managers - legacy and JAXB (configurable)
- Monitoring - incl. new System Monitoring Perspective
- PLDT
- ETFw, other tool integrations (GEM, PPW, etc.)
- Photran
- Docs, Help, Tutorials
- Other PTP contributions
- PTP User call report
- Previous call was Wed Jan 25 (4th Wednesday) See PTP/PTP_User_Meetings - answering various user questions
- Next meeting - Wed Feb 22, 2012
- Education and Outreach
- Status of outreach groups (grants etc.)
- Other Business
- Next meeting - Tuesday Mar 13
Attendees
- Beth Tibbitts, IBM
- Wyatt Spear, U.Oregon
- Jeff Overbey, NCSA
- Jay Alameda, NCSA
- Claudia Knobloch, Juelich
- Brian Watt, IBM
- John Eblen, ORNL
- Dave Wootton, IBM
- Chris Recoskie, IBM
Minutes
- Overall project, releases, etc.
- Next builds, releases
- 5.0 Indigo - 5.0.5 outlook - Indigo SR2 RC4+2 (final build) is tomorrow (Feb 15); plan to release PTP 5.0.5 Friday 2/17 or before; next week is quiet week for mirrors to replicate; GA for Indigo SR2 is Feb 24
- 6.0 Juno - M6+2 is Mar 20
- Dates for API and feature freeze dates? API freeze M6, Feature Freeze M7? This is tentative.
- Download stats - see table at bottom of page - have downloads by month (and by platform) now: package downloads up till today are 37,063.
- Git status
- PTP setup is at PTP/environment_setup/git - Beth trying to document how to do more things.
- Several developers still not comfortable, Wyatt finds some things are just not do-able in egit; must use git command line (e.g. git status)
- EclipseCon Mar 26-29: Who is going? Greg, Beth, Chris, Wyatt
- Next builds, releases
- Status Reports
- PTP Core/debug - Wyatt is interested in BG debug support; need interactive job support first
- RDT and remote status - Chris: starting to think about builds on multiple machines at once
- Synchronized Projects - John: after SR2 will look at existing bugs. next feature: Merge Tool: compare and select changes or choose local vs. remote versions.
- Resource Managers - legacy and JAXB (configurable)
- PE RMs - Dave: committed new JAXB RMs for PE and LL. 6 total PE/LL ResMgrs now. the existing legacy RM has "proxy" suffix on its name.
- BlueGene - Wyatt: won't make it for 5.0; Juno only. Wants to talk to Simon Wail etc. about his BG RM work, need better integration between all the BG developers.
- Monitoring - incl. new System Monitoring Perspective
- Claudia: Carston submitted code for Juno, waiting on legal. Claudia working on Job View. Looking at using "NetTable"
- PLDT - Beth: Juno release will have OpenACC support, dev. by Jeff
- ETFw, other tool integrations (GEM, PPW, etc.)
- Wyatt: Some "cool new stuff" is in 5.0, need to document better. ETFw user guide is on the wiki, Wyatt says he needs to update it.
- Photran
- Jeff: added toc.html to Indigo & Juno help so there is a URL to point to for Photran docs; Mariano in Argentina working legacy Photran refactorings etc. (Mariano tried to call in but had technical difficulties)
- Docs, Help, Tutorials
- Jay giving talk at UCAR conf; Jay and Jeff teaching 1/2 day PTP tutorial there too; last week Jay gave mini-tutorial to KIST visitors from Korea; "app store" for students to use scientific applications is being developed.
- SC12 and XCEDE12 tutorial proposals due in April - SC is in SLC (due apr 27); xcede in Chicago (due apr 13).
- Other PTP contributions
- PTP User call report
- Previous call was Wed Jan 25 (4th Wednesday) See PTP/PTP_User_Meetings - answering various user questions
- Next meeting - Wed Feb 22, 2012 - Jeff will run call; Jay will be at SW Eng Conf.
- Misc
- Brian asked if anyone has suggestion for GUI test tools for Eclipse apps. Jeff had undergrads do some prototyping with SWTBOT; Beth has seen it used as well. John has used Jubula some as well.
- Other Business
- Next meeting - Tuesday Mar 13
Parallel Package Downloads
Download numbers, by month, of 'IDE for Parallel Application Developers' available on http://eclipse.org/downloads. This count is since the release of Eclipse Indigo SR1, on 23 Sept. 2011.
Month | Downloads | Total |
---|---|---|
Sept 2011 | 3825 | 3,825 |
Oct 2011 | 8630 | 12,455 |
Nov 2011 | 8777 | 21,232 |
Dec 2011 | 4506 | 25,738 |
Jan 2012 | 8179 | 32,480 |
Feb 2012* | 0 | 37,063 |
* downloads for February as shown on downloads page 14 Feb 2013
By platform through January: Windows 20,629; Linux 9866; Mac 3422