<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My apologies that this comes a bit delayed - during the last MPI forum meeting we had quite some discussions on future planning topics. Here is summary - if you have any comments, please speak up as soon as possible. I will add this to the webpages in the coming days and will consider it final, unless someone speaks up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Martin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A) Virtual Meetings until the September Meeting</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We agreed on the following meeting schedule - all meetings will be held at 8am US West Coast time, which seems to work better for US, Europe and Japan (should be 5pm Central Europe, midnight in Japan).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">July 25: Pre-reading of MPI_T Events led by Marc-Andre</div><div class="">August 8: Discussion on semantic terms led by Puri</div><div class="">August 29: Pre-reading of MPI Process Failure ticket by Wesley</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">B) Dates and Locations for 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Spring: March 4-7 in Chattanooga (thanks, Tony)</div><div class="">Summer: May 28-31 in Chicago (thanks, Jithin) (note Tue-Fri due to Memorial Day)</div><div class="">Fall: around EuroMPI (which is 9/9-13) in Zürich (thanks, Torsten)</div><div class="">Winter: December 9-12 in Albuquerque (thanks Matthew)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">C) MPI 4.0 Timeline</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The general feeling in the forum was that it is a good time to start planning for a next release of the standard, since several large items are already in process of voting or close to it. The following is a proposed time line:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Publish Draft Standard at SC 2018 (as per our new rules)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Includes all tickets passed in Barcelona</div><div class="">- Publish Draft MPI 4.0 at SC 2019 </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>start ratification process in December 2019</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Final ratification meeting in March 2020</div><div class="">- Publish standard in time (latest) by ISC 2020</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">—</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Chair of Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Department of Informatics, TU-Munich, Boltzmannstraße 3, D-85748 Garching</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="mailto:schulzm@in.tum.de" class="">Email: schulzm@in.tum.de</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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