January 2000 ACTS Toolkit Review

Meeting Logistics

The DOE 2000 Review Meeting will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, January 18 and 19 at the Waterfront Plaza Hotel in Jack London Square:
Waterfront Plaza Hotel
Ten Washington Street
Oakland, California 94607
Telephone # (510) 836-3800
Fax # (510) 832-5695
Web address: http://www.waterfrontplaza.com
We have set aside a block of 14 sleeping rooms for January 17 and 18 for those who will need to stay at the hotel. The rate is $148.00 per night plus tax. Please call the hotel directly to reserve your room with a major credit card by December 17.

The DOE 2000 meeting will be held in the Compass Room. Continental breakfast will be available at 7:30 a.m., with mid-morning refresh at 10:00 a.m. A working lunch will be served at 12:00 noon. Also, an afternoon break at 3:00 p.m.

Please let jmcgraw@llnl.gov know if you wish to have a vegetarian meal for lunch.

The closest airport is Oakland Airport. From the Oakland airport, the preferred method of transportation would be airport shuttle. There are a wide variety of restaurants immediately adjacent to the Hotel, so you should not need a car once you get to the hotel.

Airport Shuttle Companies

Directions to the hotel in case you drive

(Parking at the hotel is $10.00 per night.)

From the South (or from Oakland Airport)

880 North to Broadway exit, straight to Washington, Left on Washington to end.

From San Francisco Airport

101 South to 92 East (San Mateo Bridge) to 880 North to Broadway exit, straight to Washington, left on Washington to end.

From San Jose

Take highway 880 North to the Broadway Exit Proceed straight one (1) block and turn left onto Washington Street Proceed four (4) blocks to the Waterfront Plaza Hotel

Local attendee info

For those attendees in the local area if you drive your personal auto: (limited on-site valet parking is available for $5.00 per day usage, and these tickets can be requested).

Follow Highway 580 West to Highway 980/Downtown Oakland Take the 11th/12th street exit. This will put you on Brush Street. Proceed straight on Brush and turn left on 5th Street Turn right onto Washington Street. The Hotel is four (4) blocks ahead.

Further info

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact jmcgraw@llnl.gov or his secretary, Sharon Frazier (frazier3@llnl.gov) at (925) 422-4306.

Meeting Description and information

18-Jan-00 
       Time           Topic                            Speaker
 8:30 AM -  9:30 AM   Overview Background, Objectives  Scott, McGraw
 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM   Linear Algebra Libraries         Demmel, Dongarra
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM   Break
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM   Optimization                     More      
11:45 AM -  1:00 PM   Lunch
 1:00 PM -  2:00 PM   Particle Simulation Toolkit      Karmesin
 2:00 PM -  2:45 PM   Global Arrays                    Nieplocha
 2:45 PM -  3:00 PM   Break
 3:00 PM -  4:00 PM   Parallel Program Analysis Tools  Malony
 4:00 PM -  5:00 PM   Scripting Interface Language     Beckman
 5:00 PM -  5:30 PM   Questions
19-Jan-00 
       Time           Topic                            Speaker
 8:30 AM -  9:30 AM   ACTS Toolkit Access & Useability Saphir
 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM   ACTS on Computational Grids      Foster, Kesselman
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM   Break
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM   Software Component Architecture  Gannon
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM   Questions
12:15 PM -  1:30 PM   Lunch
 1:30 PM -  4:30 PM   Executive Session
Mary Anne has requested that each of the PI's prepare a brief summary of their project status so that the reviewers will have some background before heading into the actual review. Here is what she wants:

Please prepare a brief status report, due Monday, January 10, from each of the nine projects being reivewed. You should create a web page that we can reference through the ACTS Toolkit site at LBNL. Include a brief project overview (topic area + rationale), results to date, and plans for the next 12-18 months. You should highlight "interoperability" progress between your tool(s) and that of others, as well as describing use of your tools by clients (with an emphasis on new clients). I am not sure how to describe length limits for web pages, but we are thinking of something that has enough length to include the key content but not bury the reviewers in stuff they cannot consume prior to the meeting. If we were talking text pages, I think it would be something like 6-8 pages.

Please send reports or pointers to reports to acts-support@nersc.gov

If you have any questions, please contact jmcgraw@llnl.gov.

Reports by PIs