DANSE Developer's Meeting and Annual Review, Manassas, VA, May 29-31, 2007

DANSE Developer's Meeting and NSF Annual Review
Manassas, VA May 29-31, 2007
Hampton Inn Manassas

(For more information on the DANSE project, visit the DANSE Wiki)

At this DANSE developer's meeting, we discussed current issues in the DANSE project, and potential design and resolution paths for each topic. We also strengthened communication lines between developers, and exchanged requirements where tasks interfaced. At the annual review, the progress through the first year and the goals and deliverables of the DANSE project were presented to the team members and to the stakeholders of the DANSE project, including several memebers of the international community. Plans for flagship applications, to be constructed over the course of the full DANSE project, were described by the scientific subgroups.

Tuesday May 29

Technical discussions
4:00 svn, trac documentation
6:00 DINNER
8:00 reduction, databases

Wednesday May 30

8:30- 1 General Session and Working Lunch (Meet as one group)
- Welcome
- Michael Aivazis review presentation (20 min total)
- Jim Richarson: Argonne Scattering and Imaging Institute
- build, release tools and release process
- pyre
- UI tools, styles, and standards (vistrails demo,..)
- graphics and visualization
12 noon Tom Swain on reduction issues

Two parallel technical sessions (Meet as two groups)
1-2:30 optimization // Data Objects
2:30-4 Distributed computing // Scattering Kernels
4-5:30 testing // software engineering

DINNER

Thursday May 31

8:30 Welcome from the NSF
8:35 "DANSE Project Overview" Brent Fultz
9:05 "DANSE Project Management" Mike McKerns
9:25 "DANSE Central Services" Michael Aivazis
9:45 "DANSE Software Quality Assurance" Tom Swain
10:05 BREAK
10:25 "DANSE Diffraction Sub-group Report" Simon Billinge
10:45 "Engineering Diffraction: Update and Future Plans" Ersan Ustundag
11:05 "SANS, A DANSE Subproject" Paul Butler
11:25 "DANSE Reflectometry" Paul Kienzle
11:45 "Inelastic Subproject Report" Brent Fultz

12:05 LUNCH
1:00 "RET Site Proposal and DANSE" Larry Genalo
1:20 "SNS/HFIR Update" Steve Miller
1:40 Questions by the Reviewers

Documents for NSF Reviewers: login

Attendees:
Michael Aivazis (Caltech); Simon Billinge (Michigan State U.); Paul Butler (NIST); Brent Fultz (Caltech); Larry Genalo (Iowa State U.); Paul Kienzle (NIST); Mike McKerns (Caltech); Steve Miller (SNS); Tom Swain (U. of Tennessee); Ersan Ustundag (Iowa State U.); Charles Bouldin (NSF); Emil Bozin (Michigan State U.); Wenwu Chen (NIST); Olivier Delaire (Caltech); Mathieu Doucet (NIST); Ziwen Fu (NIST); Mark Hagen (ORNL); Patrick Hung (Caltech); Pavol Juhas (Michigan State U.); Brandon Keith (Caltech); Tony Lam (ANSTO); Michael Lee (NSF); Seung-Yub Lee (Iowa State U.); Jiao Lin (Caltech); Jiwu Liu (Michigan State U.); John McCorquodale (Caltech); Christopher Metting (NIST); Dennis Mikkelson (U. of Wisconsin Stout); Ruth Mikkelson (U. of Wisconsin Stout); Lenore Mullin (NSF); Jim Richardson (ANL/IPNS); Divya Singh (NIST); Wade Sisk (NSF); Jiro Suzuki (J-PARC); Guebre Tessema (NSF); Tom Worlton (ANL); Jing Zhou (NIST);