ASC Q2 2020 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) Q2 2020 Meeting

• Date: April 15, 2020
• Time: 11 am - 5 pm US Central Daylight Time.
• Location: Virtual Meeting. WebEx information (bottom of the page): https://recaptcha.open-mpi.org/pmix-std-recaptcha/
• Active Notes Link: Google Doc - Please add your name and affiliation.

Quick Links

• Governance Document [PDF] [GitHub Repo]

Agenda (timeline in chart below)

• Discuss 2020 quarterly meetings

  • Reminder of quarterly meeting dates
  • Discussion of Q4 face-to-face meeting logistics

• PMIx 4.0 release timeline

• Call for new ASC Members

• Vote on new ASC members

  • LANL

• Roll call for attendance/vote

  • Review voting eligibility

• Governance PRs up for a vote:

  • Reading and First Vote
    • https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/11
      • Adjust ASC quarterly meeting agenda finalization
  • Reading and Second Vote
    • https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/10
      • A fast track for administrative and minor typo changes

• PMIx Standard PRs up for a vote:

  • First Vote
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/192

• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading

  • Reading of Chapter 2 changes from Implementation Agnostic Working Group
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/235

• Plenary discussion items

  • Implementation Agnostic Document Working Group
    • Overview of issues with error codes in standard
  • Slicing/Grouping Working Group Use case presentations
    • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eN7aBxyzPD0a_GJFq1KH2ZHpoONj76op

• Working Group Presentations

  • Client Separation / Implementation Agnostic Document Working Group
  • Slicing/Grouping of functionality Working Group
  • Dynamic Workflows Working Group
  • Storage Working Group

• Technical presentations

• Use case presentations

  • (None at this time)

• Open call for new Working Groups

• Discussion items:

  • (None at this time)

Agenda Timeline

We will try to keep to this timeline as best as we can. However, discussion items may take longer/shorter than anticipated and as a result, the agenda may need to be adjusted during the meeting.

We will start roll call promptly at 11:25 am.

All times in US Central. (Last Update: March 19, 2020)

Start	End	Topic
11:00 am	11:05	Gathering
11:05 am	11:15	Discuss Quarterlies
11:15 am	11:25	PMIx 4.0 Release Timeline
11:25 am	11:35	Roll Call, Vote on New ASC Members, Call for New ASC Members
11:35 am	11:45	Governance PR Votes
11:45 am	12:00	Standard PR Votes
12:00 pm	12:45	Standard PR Readings
12:45 pm	1:15	Break
1:15 pm	1:45	Plenary: Chapter 3 Error Codes
1:45 pm	2:30	Plenary: Use Cases
2:30 pm	3:30	Working Group Updates
3:30 pm	3:35	Open Call for New Working Groups
3:35 pm	3:45	Break
3:45 pm	4:30	Technical Presentations
		- Artem Polyakov (Mellanox) "The Optimizations Of PMIx Inter-Node Exchanges"
4:30 pm	5:00	Additional Discussion Items