UBlas Dev-Meeting

uBLAS Users and Developers Meeting

Format

Since the major goal of the meeting is to discuss the further evolution of uBLAS, presentations by participants are followed by a (short) discussion and the day is closed with a review session. In the review session, topics are discussed that arise during the presentations that require more time.

All participants can propose to perform (one or multiple) presentations. For every presentation a subject and a short abstract should be submitted. Presentations should not take longer than 30min (although exceptions allowed). Every presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by the chairman. At the end of each day, a 'reporter' quickly reviews the minutes and presents the conclusions in the review session and the items that are still left open.

You can send the subject and abstract of your presentation to the organiser. The chairman schedules the presentations in order to make sure that similar subjects are presented in the same half day. Depending on the number of presentations, we will be able to decide on the duration of the meeting.

We also have vacancies for the organiser, chairmen (intentionally plural) and reporters. Everybody can propose himself and/or somebody else to be a chairman and/or reporter. All persons proposed that also accept will chair or report about part of the meeting (rotation scheme).

Agenda

Monday:

• 14:00 : Short presentation of all: tell for which applications we use uBlas.
• 14:05 : Current status, problem issues by Michael Stevens.
• 15:00 : Documentation, naming conventions and related issues by Toon Knapen
• 16:00 : break;
• 16:15 : planning for the rest of the meeting
• 16:30 : timely topic: Sparse: overview ands comparison by Gunther Winkler.
• 17:45 : timely topic: Discussion: how do we make uBlas popular? by Karl Meerbergen
• 18:30 : end of day one - dinner.

Tuesday:

The planning is made on Monday.

Topics suggested:

• Relation between uBLAS and BLAS
  • Should uBLAS call BLAS for performance reasons? This has been discussed many times but the conclusions should be restated and be documented in the uBLAS documentation.
  • Translating expressions to BLAS calls (Karl)
• Unify iterators with boost::iterator library (Gunter)
• Cleaning up: dead-code-elimination and include-strategy (Toon)
• Proposal for an EC project (Toon, Karl)
• Out-of-core matrices (Karl)
• Parallel distributed vectors and matrices (Karl)

Where

The meeting will take place in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium in the offices of Free Field Technologies S.A (http://www.fft.be) Free Field Technologies S.A. (the employer of Karl Meerbergen and Toon Knapen) has offered to host the meeting at their HQ which is 30km south-east of Brussels. There is a training-room available with 6 dual-boot windows/linux PC's and projector. The offices are located in the center of Louvain-la-Neuve (a small university city) with (cheap) hotels nearby.

When

October 25 - 26th, 2004 Start: Octobre 25 at 14h00 End: Octobre 26th at 17h00.

Who

Have confirmed:

• Knapen Toon
• Meerbergen Karl
• Stevens Micheal
• Winkler Gunther
• McCulloch? Ian