CCA Tools Notes 2009-10

Babel

• Structs
• RMI testing more systematic
• Migrate to central code repo
• Release LaTeX? source to BUG (held up over legal questions)
• Complete contracts
• John Cary Delegation problem (eliminate splicer blocks)
  • Command line switchable
• Remove unnecessary Babel cruft from Impl file
  • Always
  • Need to figure out build issues
• client-server babel processor (?)
  • Might be less maintainable
  • Maybe Java server daemon would be adequate (without changing Babel)?
• Shared libraries on BG/P
• C & Java line wrapping problem (in tracker)
• GCJ (default on most Linux installs)
  • If user doesn't need Java interop, just use GCJ to build Babel compiler
  • Possible to support GCJ as bytecode compiler for interop?
  • Might need CNI binding to make GCJ language interop work
  • How many Java users do we have?
• Babel spa
• Migrating to Python 3.0 (defer?)
• Add'l documentation
  • More tutorial-style intro (maybe we have elsewhere?)
  • need developer documentation
  • How to port Babel to a new Fortran compiler?
  • publish existing whitepapers

Bocca

• Autotools build plugin (ready soon)
• Documentation
  • User guide (tutorial?) Need to explain features not currently covered in tutorial. bocca help is insufficient
  • Differentiate between things that do and don't work
  • Developer docs (in code? external?)
  • Design documentation (expand on compframe paper)
• Inter-project cooperation (in progress)
• Migration to Python 3.0 (defer?)
• Make sure runs w/ Python 2.6 w/o deprecation warnings
• Gen build system for static binaries (need inter-project deps)
• More testing
• Clear bug tracker issues
• Delegate feature (in tracker)
• Parameter port support? (in tracker) Boyana likes current situation
• Python 2.3.4 doesn't work and should be trapped somewhere (2.3.6 is first supported)

Ccaffeine

• New MPI port standard
• Use parsifal instead of libxml2
• Clean up code tree
• Classic binding is still used (CFRFS and C++ or Java & C++ only)

Contractor

• Python 2.3.4 doesn't work and should be trapped somewhere (2.3.6 is first supported)
• Clear bug tracker issues
• Update main download page, label, 0.7.x, document changes
• Add Cray XT build to contractor (and individual tools)
• Add BG/P build to contractor (and individual tools)

CCA spec

• Static build pending bocca support
• Static build for drivers in other languages (than C++)
• Reference manual (like Understanding the CCA through Decaf)
• Document other approaches to implementing spec (see Tom for details)
• CCARB activities
• Use bocca for spec?

Tutorial and other documentation

• SIDL arrays (current tutorial chap is insufficient)
• Objects
• Static build (manually and automatically)
• Abstract framework (i.e. framing your own app in Python)
• builder service (C++, F90, Python)
• Parameter ports!!! (Rob is emphatic)
• MPI examples
• Document tools build for Cray XT

Release plan

Testing

• Nightly testing using tutorial (complete build)