Re: [eigen] Re: meeting in February?

[Aron Ahmadia <aja2111@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

This sounds good.  15 minutes is reasonable to paint a picture of some
of the computational applications where Eigen could find itself.  I'll
write back to confirm when I have booked travel.

A

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/2/1 Aron Ahmadia <aja2111@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Conference Attendees/Organizers,
>>
>> I've received approval from my manager to attend this meeting, I am
>> still looking into the details of the visit.
>
> Great !!
>
>>  I'm interested in
>> learning more about Eigen and how the techniques that have been used
>> in writing this code could be extended into existing high performance
>> scientific codes as well as how Eigen itself could be used to improve
>> the capabilities of existing codes.
>
> Great, that seems to fit in the meeting. You may be interested in
> Friday morning especially, as it is the only time that we'll be able
> to fully dedicate to general C++ techniques. The rest of the meeting
> will have to revolve around Eigen per se. At least porting Eigen to
> XLC is something that we could work on together, and usage of Eigen in
> scientific computing is something worth dedicating some time!
>
>> I'm happy to talk a little about the OpenMP and MPI parallel
>> programming paradigms if that would be of interest to the group.  I'm
>> a little less fluent with OpenCl, Intel TBB, and pthreads, but I could
>> mention them as well.
>
> That's very interesting, but a huge topic that we won't have time to
> touch: we haven't started parallelizing and won't be able to until 3.0
> is out.
>
>> I could also prepare a presentation on the potential scientific
>> computing applications I've identified that may benefit from the use
>> of Eigen, both in existing libraries/codes and as a potential tool for
>> future development.
>
> Yes, this is very interesting. Keeping in line with the organization
> of this meeting, since the number of attendees is very low, would you
> agree keep your presentation to the bare minimum (say 15 minutes) and
> then instead we'd discuss things in more detail in an informal
> discussion? This seems to work better for such a small group of
> people.
>
> I have reorganized Saturday to fit this:
> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Paris_2010_Meeting#Saturday
>
> As you can see I have moved all the talks to the morning, so that
> afterward everyone can hack in small groups on various topics. The
> idea is that the morning's talks give us ideas of stuff to hack on
> together.
>
>>
>> Of course, the main reason I'm interested in coming might be to sit
>> down with Benoit until we can figure out how to get the IBM compilers
>> working with Eigen :)
>
> Yes, of course! One hacking group could spend some time to port Eigen to XLC.
>
>> My dates are fairly flexible in the time frame that has been
>> suggested.  I also don't want to force myself into the schedule if
>> things are already fairly fixed (it is kind of hard to tell at this
>> level of planning how flexible things are on your end).
>
> We are still flexible as you can see, and I am really glad that you
> can come. I am proposing to fit your talk and XLC porting in the
> Saturday, tell me if that's OK. Again, you may be interested at least
> in Friday too.
>
> Hauke should be especially happy that you come, as you bring the
> number of non-French-speakers up to 2 !!
>
> Cheers,
> Benoit
>
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>> Aron Ahmadia
>> Assistant Research Scientist
>> Supercomputing Laboratory
>> King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've just updated the wiki:
>>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Paris_2010_Meeting
>>>
>>> First of all, everybody, notice that we now have large meeting rooms
>>> everyday, so don't refrain from coming if something interests you,
>>> e.g. the C++ session on Friday morning...!
>>>
>>> I have a few questions, please edit the wiki with your answers:
>>>  - Thomas, what's the name of the company of which we'll use the premises?
>>>  - Hauke, OK to give the Eigen 10 minutes presentation? I can review a
>>> draft if you like. I don't want to force you or to give you more work
>>> to do, though.
>>>  - Mathieu and Maxime, it now looks like the day that would work best
>>> to discuss Lie stuff, would be Sunday. Do you plan to come?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Benoit
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/1/23 Thomas Capricelli <orzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>> We can go whenever we want until as late as we want. Even 6am-11pm if needed :-)
>>>>
>>>> ++
>>>> Thomas
>>>> --
>>>> Thomas Capricelli <orzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> http://www.freehackers.org/thomas
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday 23 January 2010 06:07:19 Benoit Jacob wrote:
>>>>> Thomas, what are the hours at which we may uses these offices?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd also like to know until what time on Sunday people will be able to stay?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just need to know that and then I can propose a tentative schedule...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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