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July 2012 Meeting

Date: July 10, 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
Passcode: 2221402

Agenda

1. Overall project, releases, etc.
   • Next builds, releases
     • 6.0 Juno - PTP 6.0.0 released June 27; 6.0.1 June 29; 6.0.2 date?
       • see Juno Planning page
   • Download stats
     • 2617 for Juno Parallel package since Juno release June 27;
     • 64,860 total Indigo SR2 (PTP 5.0.x)
2. Status Reports
   • PTP Core/debug
   • RDT and remote status
     • Synchronized Projects
   • Resource Managers / Target System Configurations - legacy and JAXB (configurable)
     • RM-less launch infrastructure
     • Legacy Resource Manager-based launch ?
       • JAXB-based RMs and legacy RMs (some require proxy on target)
   • Monitoring - incl. new System Monitoring Perspective
   • PLDT
   • ETFw, other tool integrations
   • Photran
   • Docs, Help, N&N
   • Other PTP contributions
3. PTP User call report
   • Previous call was Wed June 27, 2012 (4th Wednesday) See PTP/PTP User Meetings - Jeff Overbey demo'd PTP 6.0 features in Juno release
   • Next meeting? 4th Wed is July 25
4. Education and Outreach
   • PTP Tutorials scheduled for
     • XSEDE Chicago(July 16, accepted)
     • Juelich Supercomputing Centre [1] (July 5)
     • SC12 Salt Lake City (Nov 18 or 19, proposed);
   • BOFs
     • XSEDE (accepted)
     • SC12 for Wed Nov 21 5:30-7 PM (proposed)
5. Other Business
6. Next meeting - Tuesday August 14

Attendees

Greg Watson @IBM, Beth Tibbitts @IBM, Claudia Knobloch @Juelich, John Eblen @ORNL, Jeff Overbey @NCSA, Jay Alameda @NCSA, Roland Schulz @ORNL, Chris Navarro @NCSA, Brian Watt @IBM, Wyatt Spear @U.Oregon, Hari Krishnan @LSU

Minutes

• Testing - Please keep testing everyone, fixes can go into a bugfix release soon
  • Plan to release PTP 6.0.1 at Juno release (June 27) or shortly thereafter
  • Might do another bugfix release prior to XSEDE tutorial (which is July 16)
• Eclipse Kepler (June 2013 Eclipse release) - don't branch for this yet.
  • Kepler plans: Remove Legacy Res Managers, proxy (deprecated for Juno)
• Status
  • Synchronized Projects:
    • Greg changed new project wizard UI to group local and remote directory info sections
    • Merge Conflict - John added html help and updated screen shots
    • Bug related to move and copy of projects fixed
• Testing
  • Automated GUI testing - any ideas?
    • John using SwtBot some; John has used Jubula before;
    • Issues with testing connection with remote servers; Passwords are stored in a sample config file, real ones are not committed; could it run on Hudson build server @eclipse.org?
    • Jay will look into NCSA machine and security issues for testing
    • Roland will look into how eGit does testing. Could we test remote to localhost?
• Framework - Integration of Active Jobs - commands to control Job (e.g. cancel/hold) - Greg added recently
  • Can only control jobs launched via Eclipse
• Claudia reports Wolfgang working on problmes with monitoring; closing and restarting connection caused problems.
• ETFw - Wyatt
  • Convert to JAXB with Chris Navarro's help (in PTP 7.0?)
  • Brian Watt inspried some new features in 6.0.1
  • Bluegene support - OK but needs more work; Kevin Huck working on this
  • Integrate with PTP module support? Jeff says it also works with softenv support, but hasn't tested it much. Modules support does support launching
• Next User call is June 27
  • "New and Noteworthy Tour" for PTP 6.0 which releases with Juno on that date
  • Jay will drive the 'tour' (Correction: Jeff Overbey drove the demo/tour for the PTP User call on June 27)
• Video software for capturing demo movies?
  • Camtasia (costs $$); Jeff recommends HyperCam (Free)
• Outreach
  • Tutorials upcoming: XSEDE July 16(accepted); SC12 (expect notification July 1?); ORNL Tutorial (Greg+Beth) September?; ICS tutorial @Vencie 1/2 day (N.B. ICS tutorial cancelled); Juelich tutorial full day (Greg + Carsten) after ICS
  • Face to Face User and Developer Meeting in Chicago Area during the second half of September - need to schedule (N.B. Tentative Sept 18-19?)
  • Tutorial planning for XSEDE, Juelich, etc. - use PBS Batch for sample project.
• Next Meeting July 10

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. SR2 was made available on Feb 24, 2012 and the download numbers were reset to 0 for SR2 counts.

• downloads for July as of ... July 3

By platform through March for SR1 only: Windows 24,686; Linux 11,632; Mac 4463
By platform through April for SR2 only: Windows 52,510; Linux 3959; Mac 1773

Juno downloads RC1 93; RC2 61; RC3 418;