All,

This is the CRUCIAL last time to organize for the Software Workshop
etc for next week!

      Date  March 18, 2004
      Time  3:00 p.m.  to 5:00 p.m.
      Number of people  (12)
      Phone number  617 258 7910



Agenda: ================================== 

1) Performance benchmarks on the QCDOC and GigE cluster for AHM.  
	       -- What are available? 

     (See http://physics.bu.edu/~brower/SciDAC/scc.html 
       as usual for the latest results. More are needed!)

  
2) Agenda for Software Workshop on March 25.

    (See strawman aggenda attached. Topics and associated names 
     are just examples but we need one person to "chair" each topic.)


3.) Software talk for AHM

Friday March 26
    9:45AM-10:30AM   QCDOC System, Software and Demo 
              (Chulwoo Jung and Bob Mawhinney)
    
    11:20AM-12:20AM  SciDAC Software Infrastructure(Rich Brower)
		    Chroma on QCDOC (Robert Edwards) 
                    User environment (Don Holmgren)
    
    2:00PM-2:30PM    Cluster deployment at JLab (C. Watson)

Saturday March 27

    9:40AM-10:20AM   Application Code using SciDAC Software.
                  Examples for MILC code   (James Osborn)
	           --- optimization strategies involving QMP
                  Users view of QDP++ (Kostas Orignos)


4.) Software Tutorial.

    Saturday March 26   1:30PM --- Till?

      QIO in a nutshell         ---- DeTar(*)
      QDP/C update              ---- James Osborn  
      C++ for dummies           ---- Who?
      QDP++/Chroma              ---- Robert Edwards  

     (How do you run it? How do you add new routines?)

  (*)See http://www.physics.utah.edu/~detar/scidac


Cheers,

Rich

---
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                           Agenda (draft)
 
                        Software Workshop
                   Brookhaven National Laboratory
                       Thursday , March 26, 2004

  		       9:00AM - 6:00PM



9:00AM  QCDOC Acceptance and Benchmarks: (Mawhiney/Chulwoo/Gregory)

        MILC/Asqtad : Chroma/Wilson
	Level 3 Interface: Who does the design?

10:00AM QCDOC versus Cluster Runtime Enviroment
	
	Subcommittee: Holmgren, Petrov and Watson
	How to get convergence?

11:00AM QMP 

	Clarifications: Watson/Pochinski/All
	Modification and  Extenstions:    All
	Testing: Mendes/Chulwoo
      

12:30PM-1:30PM    LUNCH


1:30PM  I/0 Routines: QCDML/metadata/middleware

	Subcommittee: Simone/Edwards/DeTar/Osborn/Watson...

4:00PM  Code Archive/Documetation 

	Distributed effort at BNL/JLab/FNAL/Universities? 


With the reality of QCDOC hardware and Software Libraries, we need to
understand better how to organize testing, installing and distributing
software.  Where is the source code (tar balls and/or CVS?). Where are
the binaries?  How do we organize this to share the burden and avoid
duplication? This is really part of defining SciDAC Software
Infrastructure needs in the era of physics production in a 3
Laboratory "metacenter". Discussion may be most appropriate with a
beer in hand at a restaurant in Port Jefferson!