<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>We are having some problems with the hotels for the June meeting – see Rich’s message below – and won’t be able to get a room block. How many people would be impacted by that, i.e., couldn’t find a decent hotel under these circumstances?</div><div><br></div><div>In general, I think we have three options:</div><ul><li>We can keep the meeting at Microsoft as usual, but this could mean for some people to potentially commute from further out to the meeting (worst case from O’Hare)</li><li>We can try to have the meeting at an airport hotel where the facilities are less ideal and we have to pay a higher cost from our leftover funds</li><li>ANL has previously offered to host, so if this still an option we could consider that as well, but this requires everyone to get rental cars</li></ul><div>Do people have preferences? Unless I hear a clear vote for one option, though, I think we should stick with option 1 to avoid confusion and have the least impact on budgets (forum and travelers).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Martin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; border-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>________________________________________________________________________</div><div>Martin Schulz, schulzm@llnl.gov, http://scalability.llnl.gov/</div><div>CASC @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA</div><div><br></div></div></span></span></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "<a href="mailto:richardg@mellanox.com">richardg@mellanox.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:richardg@mellanox.com">richardg@mellanox.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 11:17 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Anh Vo <<a href="mailto:Anh.Vo@microsoft.com">Anh.Vo@microsoft.com</a>>, Martin Schulz <<a href="mailto:schulz6@llnl.gov">schulz6@llnl.gov</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> RE: hotel for MPI Forum in June<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We have been looking into it, and l don’t think we will be able to come up with a hotel. There is some big meeting down town with hotels not having availability at least for blocks of rooms at a discount rate.
For the fun of it I checked on gov rate availability in Marriott chains, and same issue (that is the rate we usually get). We could get hotels out towards the airport, but I do not think that is practical.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">One thing we could consider is having the meeting at the Spring Hill Suites out by the airport – not as nice a location, but last time we met there they gave us free meeting rooms for staying with them and for
catering. Not sure if there is a room count requirement with it. <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
Martin</span>, what do you think ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Rich<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></span></body></html>