Subject: Message-Passing WG meeting

From: Vladimir Getov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 01:01:52 +0100 (BST)

Please note that our meeting on 14 June will be held in

                          Sir Francis Drake Hotel
                     450 Powell Street (Union Square)
                         San Francisco, CA, USA
             http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/conferences/java99/map.html

The format of the meeting is:

Monday June 14th
13:30 - 15.30  Meeting session 1
15.30 - 16.00  Break
16.00 - 18.00  Meeting session 2

Tentative Agenda:

(I have provisionally put several names against some of the
agenda items. These would most likely be the people to kick
off the discussion with short presentations)

1. Welcome and Introduction (Vladimir Getov)

2. Background - the MPI Forum and the JavaGrande Forum (Marc Snir)

3. Draft specification of Java binding for MPI

	2.1. Procedure for editing the draft document

	2.2. Discussion - Open issues (Bryan Carpenter, Glenn Judd,
             and others) - for details please visit

http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/java-mpi/
and
http://notch.cs.byu.edu/javampi/BindingIssues.html

	2.3. Timetable for completing the final draft
 
3. Performance evaluation - benchmarking results (Mary Thomas,
   Vladimir Getov, and others)

4. O-O Java-centric message passing (George Crawford, Richard Frost,
   and others)

5. EOB

6. Date and place of next meeting and close
 
Regards,
		-Vladimir