<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hi all,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">The MPI Forum in September 2015 will be held with EuroMPI in Bordeaux (thanks to Guillaume and his team!). The conference will be in the week of 9/21 to 9/25 and based on that we have two options for the forum meeting:</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">The traditional option that we have been using also this year:</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Conference 9/22-9/25 (Tue-Fri)</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">MPI Forum 9/28-9/30 (Mon-Wed, following week)</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">A more condensed option:</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Conference 9/21-9/24 (Mon-Thu noon)</font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">MPI Forum 9/24 -9/26 (Thu noon – Sat)</font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">We had quite some discussion on this at the Forum meeting (heavy load due to an intense 6 day meeting vs. an extra weekend on the road) in Kobe and a split opinion with a very slight majority for the condensed version in a straw poll. However, we felt that this should not be decided by the few who traveled to Kobe and so I wanted to through this out as a general discussion. We have to (and we will) fix this decision during the December meeting in San Jose – if necessary, I.e., if we don’t have clear consensus, with an </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">official vote based on organizations.</font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks!</font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Martin</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">________________________________________________________________________</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Martin Schulz, <a href="mailto:schulzm@llnl.gov">schulzm@llnl.gov</a>, <a href="http://scalability.llnl.gov/">http://scalability.llnl.gov/</a></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">CASC @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>