Agenda 5 December 2005

last edited 2 years ago by karl

Meeting to be held 11am 5 December 2005

Contributions. What existing projects and research may give ideas, indicate directions or directly contribute to this project?
What role are dynamic languages going to play?
- Is all distributed memory communication going to happen below the API available to dynamic languages or is the flexibility and ease of programming dynamic languages a useful asset in developing communication algorithms?
  How does the performance penalty of not using a systems language compare with the time involved in transferring data between machines?
System-level language for coding - Fortran 90, Fortran 2003, C, C++, or a combination.
- How does the compiler support for each language compare?
- How do the debugging utilities for each language compare?
- Are available programmer skills an issue?
- Is one language going to provide better productivity or performance?
- Is one language going to interface better with other components?
Resourcing. Employing new staff. Who do we need? What skills will we require?
Future Meetings.
1. Development framework. How are we going to develop code? What documentation systems, bug systems, code management systems do we want to employ?
2. Starting work.