ASC Q1 2024 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) 1Q 2024 Meeting

• Date: Jan. 23 & 25, 2024
• Time: 10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time each day
• Location: Virtual Meeting. WebEx information (bottom of the page): https://recaptcha.open-mpi.org/pmix-asc-recaptcha/
• Active Notes Link: Google Doc - Please add your name and affiliation.

Quick Links

• Governance Document [latest]

Agenda (Finalized Jan. 22, 2024)

This meeting has a floating agenda with specific synchronization points to keep us on track. Rough time estimates are provided per agenda item, and the co-chairs plan to cover the topics in the order seen below. However, since some agenda items will take longer/shorter than anticipated, an exact start/end timing is not guaranteed, and some items may float to the second day. If you cannot attend the full meeting and are presenting, please let the co-chairs know, and we can plan accordingly.

Day 1: (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (--)
10:05 am	10:10 am	Roll Call (We will start roll call promptly at this time)
10:10 am	11:30 am	Discussion of agenda items
11:30 am	11:45 am	Break
11:45 am	1:00 pm	Discussion of agenda items

Day 2: (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (--)
10:05 am	11:30 am	Discussion of agenda items
11:30 am	11:50 am	Voting and Break Voting Link
11:50 am	12:45 am	Administrative and Working Group agenda items
12:45 am	1:00 pm	Closing discussion and wrap up

Agenda Items

• Officer nominations:

  • Thomas Naughton
  • Ralph Castain

• Governance PRs up for a Second Vote:

  • None

• Governance PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:

  • None

• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Provisional):

  • None

• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Errata):

  • None

• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Second Vote:

  • PR 492 Add value and info APIs
  • PR 490 Issue 414: ordering & method of specifying procs in collectives clarified
    • minor change pending on text
  • PR 484 pmix_server_dmodex_req_fn_t PMIX_REQUIRED_KEY
  • PR 443 Minor edits to the event chapter
    • minor change pending on text

• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:

  • None

• Voting Link

• DAY2 Voting Link

• Plenary discussion items

  • Editorial PRs
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/503
  • PR 500 IAWG Process management chapter
  • Stalled PRs?
    • PR 449 IAWG pack/unpack chapter
    • PR 398 IAWG publish-lookup chapter
  • Brief review of 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.
  • Org Chart rework/Open PMIx rapprochement
    • New institutional organization between PMIx Standard and Open PMIx discussion continued
      • Better cooperation between standardization and Open PMIx
      • Reduce 'double work'
      • Keep momentum going
      • Goal of the standard
      • Open PMIx/implementation org chart
    • Website rework
      • Emphasis on use-cases (reduce perceived complexity of standard/implementation effort)
      • Documentation, ABI
    • SPI to HPSF Discussion continued
    • Open Discussion
      • Ralph: Preemption policy infrastructure support, starting to work on ability to query for system defined preemption policy for a given system.

• Revision Exception Votes

  • TODO

Meeting Notes:

Attendance

Person	Institution	Day 1	Day 2

Day 1: xxx. xx, 2024

Day 2: xxx. xx, 2024