Meeting 2021 09 09

Agenda

• Next Meetings and Deadlines
  • PMIx ASC Monthly Meeting: Thursday, Sept. 9
  • PMIx ASC Officer Nominations Due: Tuesday, Sept. 21
    • 2022-2024 Co-Chair
    • 2022-2024 Secretary
  • PMIx ASC 4Q Agenda Items Due: Tuesday, Sept. 28
  • PMIx ASC 4Q Agenda Freeze: Tuesday, Oct. 12
  • PMIx ASC 2022 Dates: Tuesday, Oct. 12
    • (Doodle Poll)
  • PMIx ASC 4Q Meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 26 & Thursday, Oct. 28 ASC 4Q 2021 Meeting
• PMIx v4 Release Update (Ralph/Josh)
  • Planning to release v4.1 soon
• PMIx v5 Release Update (Ken/Dave)
• Working Group Updates:
  • Slicing/Grouping of functionality: Stephen Herbein
  • Implementation agnostic document: Dave Solt
  • Tools: Isaías A. Comprés
  • Dynamic workflows: --
• PMIx Standard: Open GitHub Issues and PRs
  • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues
  • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pulls
• PMIx Governance: Open GitHub Issues and PRs
  • https://github.com/pmix/governance/issues
  • https://github.com/pmix/governance/pulls

Attendees

Josh Hursey (IBM)
Thomas Naughton (ORNL)
Stephen Herbein (LLNL)
Michael Karo (Altair)
Isaias Compres (TUM)pres (TUM)
John Delsignore (TotalView)

Notes

• Review Next Meetings and Deadlines
  • PMIx ASC Monthly Meeting: Thursday, Sept. 9
  • PMIx ASC Officer Nominations Due: Tuesday, Sept. 21
    • 2022-2024 Co-Chair
    • 2022-2024 Secretary
  • PMIx ASC 4Q Agenda Items Due: Tuesday, Sept. 28
  • PMIx ASC 4Q Agenda Freeze: Tuesday, Oct. 12
  • PMIx ASC 2022 Dates: Tuesday, Oct. 12
    • https://doodle.com/poll/88df7c6axymabkim
• PMIx v4 Release Update
  • PMIx v4.1:
• PMIx v5 Release Update
• WG: Slicing/Grouping of functionality
  • #357: Cross-version support added for review
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/357
  • StephenH starting new position, will be stepping down from WG lead.  Looking for new lead if interested, otherwise will be putting WG on hold.
  • Will send announcement to list.
• WG: Implementation agnostic document
  • Point raised if right fit for interoperability between implementations, or is Tools WG better fit?
  • Suggestion to bring to Dave (this WG) and discuss in next mtg to get feedback.
• WG: Tools
  • Forming phase done
    • Collaborators from the USA and Europe at the moment
  • Identified goals for the WG:
    • Dlopen friendly headers and specific return values
      • Check issues below
      • John and Ralph are leading this
      • Seems to belong in the implementation agnostic WG
    • General purpose transaction API
      • Use cases: exchange of resources
      • Prototypes will be part of a few european research projects
    • Heterogeneous resource representation improvements
      • May overlap with slicing WG
  • Discussion: Note regarding dlopen, the OMPD work for generating header that could be helpful to verify correctness of header content
    • https://www.openmp.org/spec-html/5.0/openmpch5.html#openmpse43.html
• WG: Dynamic workflows
  • Justing Wozniak from Argonne volunteered to lead.  See mailing list for updates.
• Open Tickets:
  • Constant values:
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues/358
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/359