[VTK ARB] next ARB meeting : october 6th

[Jeff Baumes]

For the ARB meeting today at 11am EDT, please join the following
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I will be on Skype username jeffbaumes.

Jeff

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Paolo Quadrani <p.quadrani at cineca.it> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm sorry for today meeting but I've an unforeseen appointment with my
> doctor (he decided to move at today a visit).
>
> So I'm going to contribute via mail:
>
> - In these days I'm going to have a look to *Equalizer* (
> http://www.equalizergraphics.com/ ) and how to use it with VTK inside the
> new implementation of the MAF3 framework. Unfortunately this library has a
> LGPL license, so I'm going to use it as binary shared library and load it
> dynamically as plug-in.
> Equalizer can manage both meshes and volumes and render them in a parallel
> way by using multiple graphic cards on the same computer or on a cluster.
> It can be used without modifying the existing code. I'm going to do some
> tests and when I'll have some numbers on performances I'll let you know.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paolo
>
>
> On 17/ott/2010, at 15.06, Stephane PLOIX wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose october 6th at 11 am EDT for the next ARB meeting.
> This meeting will be focused on the shared-memory and hybrid parallelism,
> please speak up if you feel concerned and the time is not good for you!
>
> During this meeting, I would like to :
> *present the possible strategies in VTK : where can we modify VTK to
> improve its performance ?
>
> *list the existing efforts. If those knowing of those efforts could give us
> an overview of the current work being done.
> In particular, what is the target of the current effort (hybrid,
> intra-algorithm parallelism, execution model...)
> Please tell me who would like to talk!
> We will propose an idea : implement a task-stealing framework in VTK. I
> would like to invite the french INRIA and CEA colleagues for this.
>
> *try to detect potential conflicts between the efforts.
>
> *decide of a course of action :
> who works on what, how do we coordinate the efforts, for when...
>
> I will set up a wiki page to prepare the meeting.
>
> Best,
> Stephane
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