PTP/meetings/September 2010

September 2010 Meeting

Date: September 14, 2010 Time: 1:00 PM EST

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Attendees

• Greg Watson, IBM
• Beth Tibbitts, IBM
• Alan Humphrey, U.Utah
• Wyatt Spear, U.Oregon
• Max Billingsley, U.Florida
• Al Rossi, NCSA
• Jay Alameda, NCSA
• Chris Recoskie, IBM
• Roland Schultz, ORNL

Minutes

• Helios Builds.
  • Staging update site is http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ptp/updates/helios_sr1/ - this is also used by the Helios update site aggregator
  • RC4 is this week
    • Our RC4+2 build is Wednesday (tomorrow)
    • Already available on helios_sr1 update site
    • This has dialog changes for Remote Project Wizard (no longer need to enter Service Configuration info); simplifies setup for Remote Project and Resource Managers
• Final GA is Sept 24 for Helios SR1 (Service Release 1) which is our PTP 4.0.3
• Everyone PLEASE TEST!!

• PTP HEAD (to be PTP 5.0) is currently broken
  • still too early to require use with Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo)
  • we will fix HEAD build errors after Helios SR1 release
• Build:
  • Greg wants our builds to run on hudson build server at eclipse.org
  • This keeps track of number of errors and warnings, etc.
  • Greg will try to set up the build like CDT's

• Alan and Chris presented GEM and PTP at the ICPP (International Conference on Parallel Programming) PSTI Workshop (Parallel Tools and Tool Infrastructure) http://www.psti-workshop.org/
  • GEM was the only full demo at the workshop - 30 min long
  • Very well received, many questions on GEM and PTP (authors include Alan, Chris, Ganesh, Beth)
  • Paper: GEM: Graphical Explorer of MPI Programs
  • Slides: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fuerling/psti/docs/gem-psti-2010.pdf

• LiveDVD for SC10 Tutorial (11/14/10, see http://sc10.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=tut149 )
  • Contains Fedora Linux, Eclipse 3.6 (and 3.5), OpenMPI 1.4.2 (and 1.3.x) - VERY CONVENIENT for demo'ing PTP!!
  • Recent additions: GEM/ISP, Berkeley UPC, PTP 4.0.x, CDT
  • Wyatt says he needs to add the CDT Berkeley UPC wizard (Note: it's on the CDT-specific update site and the cdt-master zip, not on the Helios site)
  • Wyatt will update to all the Helios SR1 stuff too

• PGAS conference paper on Eclipse UPC features - co-authored by Max and Beth
  • PGAS Conference Oct 12-15 in NYC
  • This paper will be the best source of UPC Eclipse tools, all in one place

• Remote calls (sub-group discussing remote-enabling more of PTP)
  • next call is Sept 28. Contact Beth if you want to be included
  • Remote-izing is still needed in: ETFw, PLDT, Photran, GEM
  • GEM is next - Alan is working on
  • Wyatt will work on ETFw remote-izing after Grant $$ comes in.
  • Max is interested in remote-enabling PPW. Needs ETFw remote-enabled first.

• Remote-GIT (Roland)
  • Roland hasn't started on it yet. Bugzilla bug
  • Will investigate using GIT See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=316709

• RDT: Chris and team have been busy with IBM product stuff
  • CDT for Indigo available soon
  • Spawner changes have been done

• 4.0.3 build will be later today
• NCSA (Jay/AL) are waiting on grant money

• SC tutorial is Sunday Nov 14 - slides are due Friday.
• PTP BOF is Wed Nov 17 5:30 PM
• POINT tutorial
• Scalable tutorial - Alan participating - Monday morning. Includes GEM
• Alan participating in Poster competition too - GEM

• NCSA-sponsored workshop on IDEs - 2.5 days, DC area
  • Greg attending for PTP; Jay, host (PI) is Bill Gropp; coPIs include Jay, Marc Snir, Dunning
  • funded by NSF

Next meeting is October 12