[Mpi-forum] 2011 meetings

[Terry Dontje]

Martin Schulz wrote:
>
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Torsten Hoefler wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:45:12AM -0400, Rich L. Graham wrote:
>>> Just doing this based on the calendar, here is how the schedule 
>>> would look:
>>>
>>>  Jan 31 - Feb 2 - Atlanta
>> Why again did we want to meet in Atlanta? Most people didn't like the
>> location and we don't have a sponsor for meeting rooms there. It would
>> be good to move this meeting in Chicago (if the Microsoft facility is
>> available).
>
> I agree with Torsten - Atlanta is much more inconvenient than Chicago,
> even from the Westcoast. Based on my experience last time, it is more
> expensive to fly there and red eye/evening combinations (which work
> nicely between SFO and ORD) are much harder to accomplish (in
> particular when one tries to stay under $750 NSF funding).
>
I agree even though I wasn't at the last Atlanta meeting it is 
inconvenient for me to fly there. 
>>
>>>  March 28 - 30 - CA
>>>  May 23 - 25 - Chicago
>>>  July 18 - 20 - CA
>>>  Sept - In conjunction with Euro MPI
>>> Nov 9 - 11 - In conjunction with SC (may want to move this to late Oct)
>>
>> I would propose more meetings in Chicago because it seems that more
>> folks are closer to Chicago (Argonne, IU, UIUC) than CA (Microsoft?,
>> Cisco?).
>
> You can add us to this list for west coast as well :)
>
West Coast trips are useful for us too.  Plus who really likes being in 
Chicago from November-March?

--td

> I would propose to go back to the original scheme of alternating between
> Chicago and CA. This seemed to have worked well in the past.
>
> Martin
>
>
>>
>> Thanks & Best,
>>  Torsten
>>
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