Meeting 2024 09 12

• Date: September 12, 2024 (MEETING CANCELED)
• Time: 11 am - Noon US Central Daylight Time
• Location: Virtual Meeting. Zoom information: https://recaptcha.open-mpi.org/pmix-std-recaptcha/
• Active Notes Link: Google Doc - Please add your name and affiliation.

Agenda

• Next Meetings

PMIx ASC Q4 2024 Meeting (Format: virtual)
 * October 15 & 17, 2024 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
   * Sep. 17: Announcement deadline
   * Oct.  1: 2 week freeze deadline on all PR changes

Administrative

• Discuss plans for Nov. 14 monthly ASC meeting? (SC24 following week)
• No SC24 BoF, plan possible Face-to-Face meeting at SC?
• Open Positions: Secretary seat is available

PMIx v5.1

• Review open PRs
• Drift items

PR ongoing work (to announce for 24Q4?)

• PR 495 Issue420/get nb key@v5
• PR 500 IAWG Process management chapter
  • Passed 2nd-vote, ready to merge?
• PR 449 IAWG pack/unpack chapter
• PR 398 IAWG publish-lookup chapter
• Drift items https://github.com/openpmix/pmix-tests/actions
  • Triaged items are entered into Issues list with the “Drift:” prefix
  • Note: Not all items identified in scans are needed (e.g., prototyping in openpmix) but once confirmed as gap a new ticket is created.

Working Groups

IAWG:

• Activity report

Tool/Dynamics:

• Activity report

Call for new WGs

General discussion items

• Advancement toward improving online documentation (if not discussed during IAWG report)
• Any clarification needed in Standard for key/val update after fence? (from OpenPMIx-devel discussion 5sep2024)
• Convergence between the standard document and Open PMIx documentation
• Open discussion

Attendance

Person	Institution
Ken Raffenetti	ANL
Aurelien Bouteiller	UTK
Thomas Naughton	ORNL

Notes

• SC24
  • Requested space at UTK booth for fixed time
  • Will need to publicize this info
  • Possibly have small flyers to share details, a LinkedIn post (or the like) to share these details. Also post to the NGSST slack & mailing lists and obviously the standard pmix-forum & openpmix lists.
• ASC positions
  • Secretary seat open
  • Need to check when chair seat ends
• PMIX v5.1 updates
  • Working on the use case material, some recent progress on code examples (e.g., business card exchange) and minimal implementation demonstrator (e.g., logger + tool example).
  • Reviewed Ken’s business card exchange example w/ TCP port/addr info
  • Discussion about easiest place to house examples, seems good to keep them w/ git history and easy markdown style format for surrounding docs
  • Keep these items separate from standard procedural process to make examples easier to update/review/post.
• PR reviews
  • PR500 - 2nd review passed, but awaiting merge.  This was an errata. Need to add a ChangeLog item and then can finish GitHub Review to allow merge
  • PR495 - Ready to merge
  • PR449 - passed 1st vote, just need to schedule next vote in Oct.
  • PR514 - need to add the python whitelisting to avoid complaints, after python change this ready to merge these editorial change.
  • This completes the current PRs.
• Discussion
  • Seems focus going forward will likely be on making sure standard and implementation align.  The standard does appear to accommodate most of the things needed.
  • Question about publishing of key/value data a second time being unclear.  Need to verify the standard language for this and in case of implementation this is not allowed.  Could be that verbiage may need to be added to govern updates by of fence. Suggestion to have a reproducer and use that to clarify the standard text.
• October Meetings
  • Cancel October monthly (10-oct) due to quarterly the following week.