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                     HAPPY NEW YEAR 

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          THE DAWNING OF THE TERAFLOP/S EPOCH
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                Winter Software Workshop
                    Boston University
                   3 Cummington Street
                Physics Research Building
              5th Floor Conference Room 595
                  January 8 and 9, 2005


=============  Agenda for Software Workshop  =================== 
               

Saturday January 8, 2005
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9:00 - 1:00 For those coming in on Friday Night this time can be used
            for individual/informal interactions. James and I will be
            there.  James, Carleton, Ying and I are planning to work on
            MILC Benchmarks.

   
1:00 QCDOC Subgroup (open to all)
     
      Overview of Programming Environment 
     (Bob Mawhinney and Chulwoo Jung)


2:00 Disk access, I/O Software, File management etc.  Availability of
     large QCDOC clusters for "friendly user period"  (Bob M)


4:00 QCDOC Runtime Environment  (Kostia Petrov)


6:30 Adjourn for Restaurant




Sunday January 9, 2005 
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9:00  Common Runtime environment --- Design Review
      When can beta testers start using this environment?
      (Don Holmgren, Chip Watson, Kostia Petrov)



10:00  Software Readiness and Performance Checklist for QCDOC/Clusters

      QMP2 Complete?

      I/O and file format and handling

      Level 3 Inverters 
               Asqtad  for QCDOC
               DW      for QCDOC  what form? Shamir, Borici, Mobius,....

      >>>>> Development/maintenance path for QDP/C+QLA and QDP++


11:30  Testing routines for QMP2 ---- Ying Zhang 
       QMP2 bugs and confusions (if any) --- all




12:30 - 1:30 (Lunch --- Sandwiches provided?)


1:30 MILC Software Needs and Road Map for deployment to full
      production runs beginning April 1.  (C.DeTar)


2:00   Hybrid Monte Carlo code for Domain Wall Fermions
       for deployment for full production runs beginning April 1
       (Robert Edwards)


2:30   Alpha Testers "Complaints & Compliments!"  (Gottlieb)      



              QCDOC:  MILC Renner, Gottlieb             Chroma: Osborn
               FNAL:  MILC         Gottlieb             Chroma: Richards, Pochinsky 
               JLab:  MILC DeTar,  Gottlieb             Chroma: Orginos

              (More beta testers to be added Feb 1.)
 
        >>>> Sharing "generic" application code and availability of tarballs?


      
3:30 Readiness of Cluster deployment and Road map to future?
     (Chip and Don Holmgren)


4:30  Lattice Archive for SciDAC production runs.
      Compatibility with ILDG standards. 


6:30 Adjourn for Restaurant (Joined most likely with others coming for
       Mondays Program Meeting)