Programme

Monday 28th November
10.00-13.00	Not scheduled to allow for travel. Hands-on access to a number of platforms will however be available to set up worked examples for later discussion.
13.00-15.30	Global Array Recent Developments and Plans The GA development team will present a summary of the recent developments to the GA and ARMCI software, including process groups, mirrored arrays etc. and discuss the status of current porting activities. This will be followed by a general discussion of these plans and a chance to input additional user requirements, e.g. extensions to functionality new platforms required Any developments made by users that might be submitted back to the GA developers discussion of support models, user lists etc issues associated with porting away from TCGMSG
15.30-16.00	Coffee
16.00-18.00	Open session - Performance A chance for users to present performance data, including for example, Comparisons with other programming models, libraries New platforms for which optimised ports are needed Discussion of standard GA benchmarking procedures
Tuesday 29th November
09.00-10.30	Open Discussion - Future Support Arrangements At present limited resources are available for support of the GA tools, particularly for users outside the US. Effectivenss of existing support arrangements Possibilities for developing GA support for European users, through bids to support staff based either at PNNL or in US or European research groups. Possibility for wider user involvement in QA, benchmarking, testing. Future European GA users meetings and possible formation of user group
10.30-11.00	Coffee
11.00-12.30	Hands-on session Time for one-to-one discusions on programming approaches to particular problems. Access to a number of parallel systems will be provided including Cray XD-1 and Opteron Clusters.
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30-17.00	Hands-on session continued