PTP/meetings/November 2009

November 2009 Meeting

Date: November 10, 2009 Time: 1:00 PM EST

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Agenda

1. Release Status
2. Helios (Eclipse simultaneous release) participation
3. PTP Status
4. RDT Status
5. Photran Status
6. ISP Contribution Status
7. SC09 events for PTP
   • PTP Tutorial Monday
   • PTP BOF Wed 5:30-7pm
   • PTP demos at various exhibit booths
8. Other new contributions?
   • Interested in getting involved? Speak up here!
9. Other Business
10. Next meeting

Attendees

• Beth Tibbitts, IBM
• Dave Wootton, IBM
• Mike Kucera, IBM
• Chris Recoskie, IBM
• Jay Alameda, NCSA
• Jeff Overbey,UIUC
• Max Billingsley, U. Florida
• Wyatt Spear, U. Oregon

Minutes

• Release Status for 3.0
  • Still on track for Nov 30 release - requested review from Eclipse foundation
  • Release status: build yesterday, need to test. (It does install)
  • Al Rossi@NCSA has contributed patches for PBS Resource Manager.
  • China also updating SLURM Res Mgr for 3.0
• Still want to get into this release:
  • Wyatt will try to change perf package names tonight (org.eclipse.ptp.perf to org.eclipse.ptp.etfw)
  • UPC Wizard (Max) - for Berkeley UPC tool chain - almost done; Max is ok with contributing this now. Will put in a Bugzilla report to see if we can make it by the 3.0 release
  • GCC UPC wizard? Haven't heard from Intrepid. Beth will ask about status. Might be too late for 3.0

• Helios - will sign up by M4 (Dec 11) - we would have to be at least "+2" to leverage platform and then CDT changes

• PTP Status
  • Dave has been fixing up proxy. Doing perf. measurements now.
  • Greg has checked in lots - he is not here today to fill us in.
  • X10DT 2.0 released with PTP early build

• PTP 2.1.4 work being done by Chris and Mike
  • Remote XLC parser, bug fixes, etc
  • Will have to merge to HEAD eventually (Mike has already merged)

• RDT
  • Remote scanner discovery - from original from Cell team in CDT (compiles an empty file with verbose setting to discover settings, etc.) - almost functional, mostly implemented; Chris will merge to 3.0 when done.

• Photran(Jeff)
  • heard back from Eclipse legal. Using GCC linker now, have a couple more bug fixes to get in

• SC09 is next week
  • PTP Tutorial Monday (Beth, Greg, Jay, Jeff presenting)
  • Tutorial assistants: Wyatt got SC09 registration via email. Alan got his. Max reported that he didn't but later found that he did receive it.
  • Jay will try yesterday's build to see if bug fixes let him grab screen shots for tutorial slides
• SC09 Exhibit booths -
  • IBM - Beth, Greg, and Ted Hoover staffing.
  • TAU at ASC/NNSA booth (Wyatt), Live DVD (Wyatt) with Eclipse/PTP/Photran, hopefully with Remote Tools. DVDs given at POINT tutorial Monday too.
  • UIUC booth - Jeff has a couple of time slots. Informal one-on-one.
  • NCSA booth - Jay, also informal one-on-one.
  • PGAS booth - Max is participating: poster/slides on PPW (Parallel Performance Wizard) and UPC tools, informal demo

• Documentation hasn't changed to keep up with current function. - Remote Tools etc. Wyatt wondering what to put on their DVD.

• Jay: will be working on screen shots for tutorial. It's much simpler to set up remote machine now!
• Jay: asks Dave W if can use LL Res Mgr w/o PE (Jay trying a machine at IU) - DW says it should work
• Jay working on student test IDs for the PTP tutorial

• ETFw and PLDT still not remote-enabled.

• Next Meeting Tues Dec 8