History for Agenda 5 December 2005

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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.