Minutes of the MPI working group

Thursday October 19, 2000 at 11:00AM - 12:00AM PDT

Attending: Warren Anderson, Masha Barnes, Patrick Brady, Duncan Brown, Jolien Creighton, Alan Wiseman.

Next Meeting: Thursday October 26, 2000 at 11AM

Review progress with inspiral dso
Duncan Brown reported that the init() and finalize() functions of the inspiral dso are completed. ConditionData() will be done by the afternoon, and applySearch() by next week.

Review of progress with wrapperAPI
Masha reported that the new implementation is complete. She has been testing it with the trivial dso built by Jolien, and it is now debugged at that level. She has been working with Duncan to coordinate the inspiral dso and things in the wrapperAPI.

Status of the mpiAPI
Phil Ehrens was not present. Masha reported that testing of the mpiAPI starting the wrapper with the trivial dso has been done. Problems with ssh were wroked out on Tuesday. Phil reported problems with the wrapperAPI entering an infinite loop; Masha tracked that to the command line arguments being passed by Phil. The wrapperAPI then got stuck in an infinite loop trying to send error messages back to mpiAPI

Any other business
Patrick asked that Masha, Duncan, Jolien and Phil compile a list of errors that can be produced by their codes. Some portion of this list will form the initial basis for tests in the MDC. These lists should be mailed to the mpigroup mailing list.
Questions arose about the calling of initSearch() and finalizeSearch() on the wrapper master node. It was decided that the structure initParams would be modified to include an enum to indicate wrapper master, search master, search slave. The LALwrapperInterface will then insure that no memory or initialization is done on the wrapperMaster. Jolien agreed to modify LALwrapperInterface to do this.


Patrick Brady