CCARB 2008-03-06

2008 March 6 (Thursday) 10 am Pacific Time

• Gary Kumfert, LLNL (CCARB)
• Ben Allan, SNL (CCARB & WG Lead)
• Lois Curfman McInnes, ANL (CCARB)
• Masha Sosonkina, Ames Lab (CCARB)
• Kostadin (Kosta) Damevski, Utah (WG Lead)

1. Install Kosta as EventServices Chair
2. Ben's progress report on MPIServices.

• Ben's plan:
  1. Get Decaf working as a separate installable product.
  2. Do MPIService in pure Babel + Decaf
  3. Publish as example for standardization
• Kosta will be chairing the EventService working group. The Event Specification Proposal is on the wiki, and the SIDL is still valid, but the ancillary documentation is a bit dated.
• Lois & Masha agreed that MPIService and EventService were their top two priorities.
• Gary asked what should be the next item to "prime the pump" and much discussion ensued. Candidates were: GUIBuilderService, CommandLineService, ComponentFactory, and whatever infrastructure was needed to support distributed frameworks (Utah, Binghamton, and Maryland colleagues).
• Nested hierarchies of components was discussed and some confusion ensued. Ben will provide Gary with a copy of a paper, and Masha (having read an liked the paper) another example.

• Gary
  • A wiki page updating all listing working groups is overdue.
  • Change Decaf from Babel example to installable product.
• Ben
  • Recruit more participants into MPIService WG.
  • Create SIDL, implementation, and documentation.
  • Questions about collections of components abound. Post a link to 2005 paper demonstrating how to do this
• Kosta
  • Update all the documentation pertaining to Event Service Specification? so it can be implemented in Ccaffeine and Decaf
• Lois
  • Communicate back to Initiatives to see what should be next in pipeline (one of our list or something new).
• Masha
  • Communicate back to Apps to see what should be next in pipeline (one of our list or something new).