Fall 2007 Agenda

Please feel free to edit your agenda items. If you want to add an
agenda item, go ahead but please let Rob
Armstrong know. If it seems that your item has disappeared (and we
didn't discuss it) look harder, it may have been rearranged into a
different slot. If it still doesn't seem to be there, someone
(probably Rob) deleted it by mistake. Let Rob know.

''Newcomers to the CCA Forum are strongly encouraged to present a
short introduction to their research and interests as they relate to
the CCA.''


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place, last-minute information will be posted, etc. The signup page
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• Telecon: See below for each session
• MeetingPlace ID: See below for each session

Please keep an eye on the phone list in case we have to change the
MeetingPlace ID during the meeting

If you're interested in participating remotely, please email
bernholdtde@ornl.gov to indicate what you're interested in.


CCA-Lite
Half-day: 1pm to 5pm, Wednesday 10/10

Half-day CCA lite session to discuss the current state of CCA lite work and discuss directions with applications-oriented folks.

Contact Matthew Sottile (matt@cs.uoregon.edu) for questions.

• Location: Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Room: TBD

Remote Participation Information

• Telecon: 877 701 0943 code 148036
• MeetingPlace ID: 7795, beginning 12:30pm PT

Remote Participation Information

• Telecon: 877 701 0943 code 148036
• MeetingPlace ID: 1780, beginning 8:30am PT

Begin 9:00am local time

Welcome and Where's the Bathrooms
Rob Armstrong, SNL

Introductions
Rob Armstrong, SNL

The Next CCA Meeting in Boulder Colorado
Nanbor Wang: Next Host

Site Selection and Scheduling for the Meeting One Year from Now
Rob Armstrong, SNL

A Brief Update on Babel Struct Support for Fortran and rarrays
Stefan Muszala, Tech-X
I'd like to talk for 5-10 minutes about our progress and get comments and/or suggestions on our approach.

Update on Distributed Components Project and Babel RMI with CORBA (PPT)
Roopa Pundaleeka, Tech-X
A quick review of what's going on in this project and our recent work on optimizing TAOIIOP library.

Performance-Driven Interface Contract Enforcement for Scientific Components
Tammy Dahlgren, LLNL
Highlights of results from the most recent study of performance-driven interface contract enforcement features will be presented. Enforcement tracing execution time estimates are used by three different performance-driven enforcement strategies to tailor the enforcement level to each of thirteen trials. (Note: The slides were originally presented at CBSE '07 in July.)

Bocca Working Group News Part 2
Ben Allan, SNL
What is it? (SNL)

Bocca Demo and Current Details
Boyana Norris, ANL
Putting Bocca through its paces. Boyana Norris (ANL)

The CCA Tutorial and Bocca Plans
Ben Allan, SNL
The effects of bocca on the tutorial and toolkit: the revolution is in progress. Prioritization is needed. Bocca user workshops are critically needed. Bocca developer workshops are desired. When/where/who?

Lunch
On your own

Interoperability Between CCA and the Kepler Workflow Environment
Steve Parker, Utah (arrives late morning)
An update on a collaboration between the TASCS and SDM centers to provide interoperability between CCA and Kepler.

Moving the Toolkit Forward: Ideas and Discussion
Rob Armstrong, SNL
Now that Bocca is fairly functional and released, probably the easiest way to get the CCA'ified tools we already have into a uniform toolkit is to use Bocca. An example will be given with the CQoS component that I have developed. Comments and discussion is welcomed from developers.

Top 10 Reasons: Why the CCA Specification is NOT ready for 1.0
Gary Kumfert, LLNL
A humorous yet earnest synthesis of ideas, history, TASCS deliverables, and recent experience from updating the Decaf framework and manual. Also serves as starting point for developing a formal 1.0 release criteria document.

TASCS News
David Bernholdt, Lois McInnes, Gary Kumfert, Rob Armstrong

A brief summary of what's been going on (technically) in TASCS since
the last CCA Forum meeting.

Recent Developments in MCMD Area: Overview of Processor Team Specs
Jarek Nieplocha, PNNL
The goal is present the latest specification document and obtain feedback regarding our assumptions and priorities. (20min)

Whither Chasm? or Wither Chasm?
Matt Sottile, Oregon
An update on the Chasm library for F90 array descriptors, alternatives (the F2003 BIND_C capability), and a discussion of how the Chasm project (no longer funded) should go forward, and for how long.

Scheduling of BOFs for tomorrow morning
Rob Armstrong

End 5:00pm local time


Remote Participation Information

• Telecon: 877 701 0943 code 148036
• MeetingPlace ID: 6649, beginning 8:30am PT

Begin 9:00am local time

9:00am Computational Quality of Service CQoS BOF: updates on recent work + future plans. Need phone. Need to end before 11:30am PT

10:30am Preparation for SciDAC Centers and Institutes Workshop, David Bernholdt and Gary Kumfert

End 12:00n local time