Minutes of the MPI working group
Thursday December 28, 2000 at 11:00AM - 12:00AM PST

Attending:
Patrick Brady, Duncan Brown, Phil Ehrens, Masha Barnes.

Next Meeting:
Thursday January 4, 2001 at 11AM

Status of mpiAPI
All baseline requirements are in place. Some are untested, particularly load balancing. All baseline requirements have been implemented. Dicussed how controlled shutdown is handled. Wrapper master notifies the search master and then allows applySearch() to be executed one more time on all nodes. In the case of an emergency shutdown, mpiAPI goes around the wrapper.

At present all communication is handled via files being read and written. This will not change before the MDC.

Documentation for all the tests in the MDC will be written in \latex

Status of wrapperPI
Tested output with the shared object. The function freeOutput() is working. Still working on the documentation -- there are some problems with PERCEPS and documentation in LDAS generally. Masha has tested load balancing in isolation. This is handled inside of wrapperAPI, not using lamgrow and lamshrink.

Status of inspiral dso
In good shape. Duncan is adding in the last stages of control to allow load balancing and controlled exit.

Status of excess power dso
No progress to report.

Any other business
Issues of data, organization of the MDC documentation, origin of data and location of output. There will be a new LDAS release early in January.


Patrick Brady