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Meeting 2020 01 10

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Agenda

Notes

	Joshua Hursey (IBM)
	Kathryn Mohror (LLNL)
	Ken Raffenetti (ANL)
	John Delsigore (RogueWave/Perforce/TotalView)
	Ralph Castain (Intel)
	David Solt (IBM)
	Howard Pritchard (LANL)
	Danielle Sikich (Intel)
	Stephen Herbein (LLNL)
	Martin Schulz (TUM)
	Shane Snyder (ANL)
	Jai Dayal (Intel)
	Thomas Naughton (ORNL)
  • WG Updates
    • Implementation Agnostic WG
      • Prepared for reading of Chapter 1 at Q1 meeting
      • Submitted a PR against the pmix-standard repo for Chap 1 changes
      • Also going to present (not read) WIP Chap 2 with remaining time (need for extra time at the end of the day?)
      • Started on Chapter 3
    • Functionality Slices WG
      • Will be presenting 3 use-case documents for feedback on the format and content
        • Business Card Exchange
        • Tools & Debuggers
        • Hybrid Programming Models
    • Storage WG
      • Kicked off meeting on Monday (~10 attendees)
        • Representatives from Lustre, MPI-IO, etc
      • Meeting weekly
      • This week:
        • Presented PMIx background to attendees
        • Brainstormed directions for first steps
      • Potential first steps:
        • Orchestrating data movement between tiers
        • Interrogation of the storage stack to get storage resource characteristics
        • Event notification functionality - if/how to extend for storage events
    • Dynamic Workflows WG
      • First meeting takes place today
      • Will present overview of WG goals: integration of PMIx into Spark and Kube
      • Poll other attendees for their goals
      • Ralph: there is an open PMIx issue on an academic group using dynamic workflows. There is also a relevant European software stack research grant proposal (on dynamic MPI?) that Ralph will keep Jai up-to-date on.
  • ASC Quarterly Meeting Planning
    • Discussed timeline: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/wiki/ASC-Q1-2020-Meeting
      • Starting and taking roll call at 11:30 CT
      • Governance PRs
      • First ever ASC Standard reading! 🎉
        • Chap 1 of Implementation-Agnostic
      • First ever ASC Plenary! 🎉
        • Discussions of ASC meeting procedures
        • Use Cases
      • 15 minutes for each WG’s updates
      • First ever ASC Technical Presentations! 🎉
        • 15 minutes each
  • Open Issues & PRs
    • Note on governance PR #10: the PR looks like it has more commits than it really does since it is based on top of another PR
    • How to handle distributing WebEx links without exposing them to bots/spammers
      • Could go the MPI-route and use a private github (requires proving to github we are non-profit)
      • Could use a private Google Doc that people request access to
      • Could use email for smaller-scale calls (WGs)
        • I.e., in WG announcements, include “Email me at [email protected] to get a calendar invite”
    • For future meetings: how to handle WG repos
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