Minutes 27 March2006

Meeting to held 11am Monday 27 March 2006 11am

Present: Shane, Carey, Karl, Martyn, Greg, Andre

Apologies: Chris, Peter, Travis

An audio recording of the meeting can be "downloaded":ftp://ftp.bioeng.auckland.ac.nz/cmiss/opencmiss/meeting-27.3.2006.ogg

• Parallelization investigation

  • Discussion from Karl and Travis

  Shane has also had a look at Global Arrays package, looks useful, but haven't actually tested it as such yet.

  Karl has had a look at Zoltan. Provides dynamic distribution of data, and tools for communication for unstructured meshes. Again looks useful, but no practical experience yet.

  LibMesh seems worth having a look at too.

  We need to really have someone start work using something to make progress.

• Data structures.

  • Examples from Shane and Poul

  Shane sat down with Poul to make an example - linear cube. Discussion was useful and raised many practical issues. Meeting again this Thursday.

• Resourcing

  • Job description

  Shane tabled a job description for a developer. The group refined it and approved it for advertising.

• Development framework.

  • What testing framework are we going to use?
  • How are we going to develop code?