october2009agenda

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

Dogwood Room, IMU (map of IMU, in the Tree Suites area on the Mezzanine Level)

Remote Participation Information

• See above

Begin 9:00am local time

Welcome and Where's the Bathrooms
Bloomington, IN: Randy Bramley, IU

Introductions
Rob Armstrong, SNL

The Next CCA Meeting in January: Oregon Coast
Oregon Coast: Sameer Shende

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

TASCS News
David Bernholdt

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

Multi-Language Struct Support in Babel
Dietmar Ebner, LLNL

Overview of struct support in Babel and how the feature is implemented in the various languages.

A Proposed Framework for Accelerated Components
Daniel Chavarria, PNNL


An Update on the NEAMS Software Architecture
Jay Billings, ORNL

Experiences Building a Resource Manager for the IPS
Samantha Foley, IU

A discussion of how resource management within a component framework helps to enable MCMD simulations.

Designing a Fault Tolerant MPI Standard
Joshua Hursey, IU

A discussion of the proposed MPI extensions to support application fault tolerance currently under discussion at the MPI Forum.

Plans and Opportunities Involving Beam Dynamics Components
Boyana Norris, ANL

An update to the ccaEcloud SAP and Phase II SBIR to Tech-X.

CCARB report
Ben Allan, SNL
News on the specification.
SpecNotesOct09
MPI is in; events are near the event horizon.


The Joy of Typemapping
Rob Armstrong, SNL
The architecture of term-rewriting method of extending types in Babel, called typemaps. Some of the details elemental composablity will be discussed and some far ranging consequences WRT Babel.

End 5:00pm local time

Oak Room, IMU (map of IMU, in the Tree Suites area on the Mezzanine Level)

Remote Participation Information

• See above

Begin 9:00am local time

Improving the CCA Tools
David Bernholdt, ORNL

A group discussion on how to make the CCA tools more robust, more maintainable, and how to entrain more people into their maintenance and development. Possibly a BOF, but I would like participation from tool users as well as tool developers.

Things I've Learned About the Common Component Architecture
David Bernholdt, ORNL

My first CCA Forum meeting was October 2000, in Santa Fe. Now, as we face a need to reinvent our research plan, I thought it might be useful to offer some of my observations about the CCA and how it is used with the hope of instigating a group discussion of what we've collectively learned about the CCA and how we might apply those lessons to the next generation of research on HPC software engineering.

End 12:00n local time