2014 05 29

• Who: Mark, Matteo, Shantenu, Ole, AndreM, Antons

• Agenda:

  • open TODOs
    • TODO AM: re-check 2048 ceiling
    • TODO AM: micro benchmarks for RP
    • TODO MS: MPI agent...
    • TODO AT: start on Cray agent, based on ATs scripts
    • DONE OW: bootstrap for agent on archer (and others)
    • TODO OW: get quantitative EnMDTK requirements
    • DONE MS: implement postexec
    • DONE OW: follow up on port forwarding
  • MS-7 checkpoints:
    • May 8:
      • OW: simple MPI support for Stampede complete (prototype)
      • AT, OW: draft architecture for Cray agent
    • May 15:
      • MS: implementation proposal for MPI support beyond stampede
      • AM: MPI integration tests set up
      • OW: first prototype of non-MPI agent for cray
      • ALL: agree on implementation plan for Cray agent
    • May 22:
      • AM: MPI support integrated in Troy
    • May 29:
      • MS: MPI support complete
      • OW/AT: prototype for Cray agent -- reconfirm implementation plan
      • ALL: documentation of performance bottleneck
  • status reports
  • (?) what role plays scheduling on agent level?

• Notes:

  • Ceiling: severe node perf degradation
  • TODO AM: re-check with Matteo on exact problem (#104)
  • TODO AM: support MS on MPI agent?
  • TODO AM: address port forwarding ... (mom-nodes, head-nodes, ...)
  • TODO OW: check with Sergeij on Cray/BlueGene issue
  • TODO AT: put archer scripts into repo
  • Mark/Dinesh worked on the tunneling of MongoDB and Curl traffic, seems to work ok
  • TODO DINESH: check out port forwarding solution from Mark