PTP/meetings/December 2006

December 2006 Meeting

Date: December 12, 2006 Time: 1:00 PM EST

Call in information:

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Local: (505) 606-1028

Agenda

1. PTP Status
   • 1.1 release update
2. EclipseCon 2007 http://eclipsecon.org/2007 March 5-8, 2007, Santa Clara, CA
   • Submitted talks/demos
   • Other planned submissions
   • Very early registration (by Dec 31) offers discount
3. Project Reports
   • PLDT update
   • Performance tools update
   • Fortran update
   • Resource manager/runtime support update
   • Remote services update
4. Integration with IBM Parallel Environment (Dave Wootton)
5. Other business
6. Next meeting

Agenda

Attendees: IBM: Evelyn, Beth, Amir, Leonardo, Dave Wootton; Don, Wyatt, LANL: Greg, Craig, Chris, Randy; Oak Ridge: Bill Roth, Nikhil Ehatia; Sandia: Kathy Ellereed

Minutes

1. PTP Status
   • 1.1 release update: RC1 available for download; PLDT changes will be end by end of week;

build end of this week; testing next week. We'll need a release review.

1. EclipseCon 2007 http://eclipsecon.org/2007 March 5-8, 2007, Santa Clara, CA
   • Submitted talks/demos: Greg long talk (input welcome); Wyatt short talk
   • Other planned submissions: Beth Demo + PLDT short talk
   • Vote for PTP talks! Decisions on what is accepted depends on voting.
   • Very early registration (by Dec 31) offers discount
2. Project Reports
   • PLDT update
     • Beth: bugs fixed: xxxx wkg on flashing progress monitor; will checkin by end of week

1. • Performance tools update
     • Wyatt: TAU plug-in new features: Improved makefile selection system, and PAPI event selector. Craig suggests "toolchain for MPI"; Wyatt can make it available by end of week (submit bug; make patch); Wyatt to be nomiated as Committer; by Dec 31 to get reduced rate to EclipseCon?
     • Perf. framework? need to pick up work on that. Wyatt has done some general before/after work before/after calling PTP that could be adapted for this. Greg reminds us to post info on the Wiki.

1. • Fortran update
     • Chris Rickett: Progress .... Fortran lexer & parser separated. Backtracking reduced.. Greg asked for support for fortran data types in debugger from Clement. Complex datatypes being looked at too.
     • Craig: talked to Jeff Overbey @ UIUC. Plans to get rename refactoring wkg and continue work on parser generator and parser.
     • ANTLR 3.0 usable? IP clean? Doug submitting C# work which uses it. See if it passes Eclipse Foundation review. Other options aren't great.

1. • Resource manager/runtime support update
     • Randy:

1. • Remote services update

1. Integration with IBM Parallel Environment (Dave Wootton)

1. Other business

1. Next meeting