Meeting 2016 08

August 2016 Open MPI Developer's Meeting

Logistics:

• Start: 9am, Tue Aug 15, 2016
• Finish: 1pm, Thu Aug 18, 2016
  • Doodle to pick the dates: http://doodle.com/poll/xvutqr78gmzd4dmb
• Location: IBM facility, Dallas, TX
  • Doodle to pick the location: http://doodle.com/poll/kgaqumg5xmv38cvw
• Attendance fee: there will likely be an attendance fee (similar to the MPI Forum). Details TBD.

Until IBM fills in more logistics details, you can see the wiki page for the prior meeting at the IBM Facility -- it'll likely be similar

• Yes, Geoff is filling out paperwork, etc now.
  • The paperwork asked if we're charging a fee to hold the event. I'm unsure of the ramifications, for now I said 'no', since we're not certain.

Attendees

• Jeff Squyres, Cisco
• Howard Pritchard, LANL
• Geoffrey Paulsen, IBM
• Stan Graves, IBM
• ...please fill in your name here if you're going to attend...

Topics

• After v2.1.0 release, should we merge from master to the v2.x branch?
  • Only if there are no backwards compatibility issues (!)
  • This would allow us to close the divergence/gap from master to v2.x, but keep life in the v2.x series (which is attractive to some organizations)
  • Alternatively, we might want to fork and create a new 3.x branch.
• Present information about Spectrum MPI, processes, etc.
  • May have PR's ready to discuss requested changes, but schedule is tight in July / August for us.
• MTT updates / future direction
• New Cloud services update for website, database, etc.