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To provide more opportunities for PTP Users (new and experienced) to ask questions of the PTP developers, find out about an interesting PTP "Topic of the Month" and find out what's coming in future PTP releases, we hold a monthly conference call on the 4th Wednesday of each month, 1:00 PM ET/12:00 PM CT. All users are invited to attend. Please suggest topics for our calls by posting to the [https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ptp-user ptp-user mailing list]. 

= Dial-in Instructions  =

*''Step 1: Dial-In''. U.S. &amp; Canada: (866) 740-1260. Access Code: 2444696 
** Germany: Toll Free: 08006645316  Toll: 030700150735 (same access code as above)
*''Step 2: Web Login''. Browse to [http://www.readytalk.com http://www.readytalk.com], and enter Access Code 2444696.

Please note: Our conference software relies on Adobe Flash to display the web content.&nbsp; Please&nbsp;test your computer (at [http://test.readytalk.com) http://test.readytalk.com)]&nbsp;for&nbsp;compatibility prior to the meeting.&nbsp; Please also note that some distributions of linux (Fedora Core 12, for instance)&nbsp;may not have Flash enabled by default, if so, please follow [[PTP/PTP User Meetings/Flash on Linux|these steps]] to enable Flash on your system.

= &nbsp;Schedule  =

User calls are generally held on the '''4th Wednesday''' of each month at '''1:00 PM ET/12:00 PM CT'''. 

=== June  25, 2014 ===
Tentative plan: New features in PTP 8.0 and Eclipse Luna

=== May 28, 2014 ===
* Meeting cancelled

=== April 23, 2014 ===
* Scheduled for 4/23/14 at 1pm ET
* Dave Wootton will describe and demo his prototype tools for OpenCL support and tools in Eclipse and PTP.
*[http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/ptp/docs/PTP_User_Call-20140423-opencl.pdf Slides ( PTP_User_Call-20140423-opencl.pdf)]
* Readytalk webcast video recording: http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=9v1zdb

=== March 26, 2014 ===
* Meeting cancelled

=== February 26, 2014 ===
* Topic: PTP Script Editing and other non-PTP things you can do with Eclipse - for HPC developers
** Including Eclipse plug-ins for editing bash, Python, perl, R, Matlab, and testing scripts on remote hosts
* Nate Rabold and Dave Hudak from Ohio Supercomputer Center
* Today's presentation slides:  [[Media:PTP_User_Call-20140226-scripting.pdf]]
* Readytalk Webcast Video Recording of the call: http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=7fa5de

=== January 29, 2014 ===
* Postponed from Jan 22
The topic will be debugging with the PTP Parallel debugger.
* Overview of debugger and  demo (Dave Wootton)
* Port to MPICH coming with the Luna release (Dave Wootton)
* How to create a TSC (Target System Configuration) and how Dave modified the perl scripts to support MPICH for debug
* Other debugger Q&A
Slides:
* Today's presentation slides:  [[Media:PTP-user-debug-20140129.pdf]]
Readytalk Recording of video and audio:
* [http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=7opwfv Recording]
Other debugger reference info:
* PTP Tutorial Debugger section only - of PTP tutorial [[Media:PTP-tutorial-kepler-debug.pdf]] 
* PTP help: [http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.ptp.doc.user%2Fhtml%2F06parDebugging.html&cp=41_11 Debugger]
* [http://wiki.eclipse.org/Parallel_Tools_Platform_FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_create_my_own_Target_System_Configuration_for_the_scheduler_on_my_remote_system_.3F Creating a TSC] - from the PTP FAQ, includes a couple of other debugger-related FAQs.
** To clone a TSC and make your own changes, do New>Import>Target system Configuration, pick one to copy and you can modify it.  Be sure to change the name tag so you can recognize your new TSC when you pick it in the run/debug configuration (Dave covers this in the demo)

=== December 4, 2013 ===
* Note: Call combines November and December meetings.  Topic: Syncing and building with multiple remote hosts, by John Eblen
* Recording and other materials available:
**[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=6y7wre Part 1: Intro and Dave Hudak, OSC]   - Eclipse Starter Kit at OSU for HPC
**[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=35hkjm Part 2: John Eblen, Synchronized Projects with multiple remote target machines] - demo of setup and use
** John's summary slide "Tips for Synchronized Projects with Multiple Hosts" contained these bullets:
***[[Media:Ptp-user-2014-12-04-eblen-syncMultipleHosts.png |Tips for synchronized projects with multiple hosts - slide image ]]

=== July 31, 2013 ===
* Note: Call moved from July 25, 2013 due to XSEDE13.  Topic: Monitoring system customization by Carsten Karbach

*[[Media:Carsten-Karbach-31july2013-Slides.pdf|Slides]]
* Readytalk webcast video recording: [http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=d50uzg Recording]

=== June 26, 2013 ===
*PTP Developers demonstrate PTP 7.0 features in the Eclipse Kepler Simultaneous release
*[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=feefys Recording]
 *Agenda:
 :05 Introduction - Jay Alameda
 :20 Overview of Eclipse Kepler and PTP 7.0 - Beth Tibbitts
           - Built-in Terminal view
           - Sync projects now support generic projects
           - Creating a synchronized project
           - Build and running; build configurations; sync configurations
           - Sysmon stand-alone system monitoring
           - Pointer to N&N, Photran is mainly a maintenance release
 :10 Synchronized Projects - details
            - File filtering - Roland Schulz
            - Scanner Discovery - John Eblen
 :10 External Tools framework - Wyatt Spear
           - Transitioning from old to new framework 
           - Simple performance analysis workflow
 :10 New Target System Configuration: IBM LSF  - Dave Wootton
 :05 Wrap-up - Jay and Beth
         Upcoming PTP tutorial at XSEDE - San Diego July 22
         PTP 7.0.1 available soon with some bug fixes

=== May 22, 2013 ===
*We have a guest speaker, Jay Billings of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, giving a talk on "Simulate This! -- The Eclipse Platform as an Integrated Computational Environment"
*[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=2v94lc Recording]

=== November 28, 2012  ===

*We will discuss the Eclipse stand-alone system monitor "PTP SysMon"
*[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=bzhh9c Recording]

=== August 22, 2012  ===

*We will discuss items to be discussed at upcoming PTP User face to face meeting Sept 18-20 
**http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/Conferences/Eclipse/
** [[PTP/workshops/September_2012| Schedule and Presentations]]

=== July 25, 2012  ===

*Cancelled, we will resume August 22, 2012.

=== &nbsp;June 27, 2012  ===

*Jeff Overbey demonstrates PTP 6.0 features in the Eclipse Juno Simultaneous release 
*[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=1cnx4y Recording]

=== May 23, 2012  ===

*Cancelled, we will resume on June 27, 2012

=== May 10, 2012  ===

*Greg Watson (IBM) demonstrated the new target system configuration capabilities in PTP 6 -- i.e., PTP without resource managers 
*[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=y48bn Recording] - Content starts at approximately 4:15

=== April 25, 2012  ===



*Dave Hudak (OSC) will discuss '''Python support '''in Eclipse (PyDev) and use cases for PTP integration 
*[http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/ptp/docs/python-eclipse-20120424r1.pdf Slides (PDF - 1.4 MB)] 
*[http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/ptp/docs/videos/User-Call-20120425.zip Screencasts (Zipped MP4s - 16.3 MB)]

=== April 4, 2012  ===

NOTE: date change due to EclipseCon conflict. 

*Galen Arnold (NCSA) will demonstrate how to use '''valgrind''' with Eclipse Linux Tools and PTP. 
*[https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/WHPC/stream+benchmark+with+valgrind+and+eclipse Step-by-step instructions] on the NCSA wiki 
*[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=3eyd9e Recording]

=== February 22, 2012  ===

*Galen Arnold (NCSA) will demonstrate how to use '''gprof and gcov''' on an MPI program with the Eclipse Linux Tools and PTP. 
*[https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/WHPC/eclipse+shallow+mpi+project+with+gcov+and+gprof Step-by-step instructions] on the NCSA wiki 
*[http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=1t1mc8 Recording]

=== January 25, 2012  ===

*Recap of '''SC11''', Eclipse PTP future developments

=== Older Meetings  ===

[[PTP/PTP User Meetings/2011|Meetings from 2011]]