All,

Software call tomorrow.

       November  18th, 2004,
       3:00 p.m.  to 5:00 p.m.
       Number of people  12
       Phone number  617 324 7294


I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE ENTIRE "alpha testers" LISTED BELOW JOIN THE CALL.


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After discussion with the Executive Committe it was decided that
the "Friendly User Group"  should be broken into two phases.
 
	Dec 1 to Feb 1     "alpha testers" 
        Feb 1 to April 1    add "beta testers" to expand the scope.

The first phases would use my suggested narrow list of "experts" for
the "alpha testers":

BNL (QCDOC): 
         Dru  Renner  (MILC)
         Steve Gottlieb (MILC)
         James Osborn  (Chroma)

FNAL (Myrinet):
         Dave Richards (Chroma)
         Steve Gottlieb (MILC)
         Another Member (???)

JLab (GigE)
         Detar (MILC)
         Steve Gottlieb (MILC)
         Kostas (Chroma)

The "alpha testers" will verifying that essential software components
are bug free and can give correct result in the hands of
experts. (Full MILC & Chroma application codes would be run.)

The second phase of "beta testers" (e.g. the "alpha testers" plus more
typical users) will test the common user enviroment and general
services of the Labs to see if they are ready for the outside users
who been given allocations by the program committee and general SciDAC
users with small projects.

Agnda:==========================================================================

#1.  Discusions of specific tasks for the "alpha testers" and the
     evaluation and reporting mechanism.

#2. The usual set of status reports:
      Level 3 inverters
      I/O
      Lattice Archive for SciDAC users.
      etc.



Cheers,

Rich



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