Gang,

Our next conference call will be tomorrow:

 	  Thursdays,  December 6    Time: 4:30  PM   to  6  PM
 	  Telephone line everyone is to dial in to: (617) 258-7910

We don't have to use the entire 1.5 hours of course.


Agenda:
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     1. Review (quickly) the status of the goals set at end of
        the Jlab workshop (see below).
     

     2. What are the new issues or problems since the Jlab Workshop?

      e.g * I understand Doug Toussaint is has encountered some bugs
            running C code on the QCDOC simulator. Has this been fixed?



     3. Data Layout Standards: Carleton, Robert and I have been discussing
        this issue.  I believe a minunum set of Supported Data Types must be
        adopted. Carleton has suggested a method of dealing with multiple
        data layouts (see Carleton's Suggestion on Data Types above) good
        start for tomorrow. I would like a strawman approach developped by
        the following week and presented to the Committee meetings Dec 13 and
        20.

     4. A level 2 desing needs to be formulated --- hopefully by the
        SciDAC meeting at the end of February 2002. Who does what when?


Rich


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Goals for 2nd Quarter: (Oct 15 - Jan 15)
         1. MP API
            a. QMP API C, C++ defined, documented
            b. QMP (c) over MPI finished.
            c. QMP (C) over GM finished for Myrinet clusters
            d. QMP (C++ and C) nearest neighbor on QCDOC
               and API sufficiently analyzed for high perf implications

         2. Level 2 (and Level 1 QLA) Repertoire of functions and naming
            conventions.  Level 1 & 2 kernel with on Data Layout supported by
            all platforms for maximun peformance. 

         3. MILC (Level 1 port) on QCDOC simulator
            With sufficient information that we can forecast 
            performance.

         4. P4 Optimization.