Kickoff Meeting

Kickoff Meeting to be taken place on 15th Sept 2023 at IUPUI.

Thank you for considering attending the FZ Kickoff Meeting!

All slides for talks in the meeting can be found in this shared folder.

Here is the schedule:

  • 8:30 AM Welcome/intro/presentation of the schedule: 15 minutes
  • 8:45 AM Review of the project objectives and deliverables: 15 minutes [slides]
    • Description of the general modular design (modules for pipeline generation, modules for quality assessment, modules for optimization)
  • 9:00 AM Programming Interface and Compressor Generators: 75 minutes
    • Robert: 10 minutes to introduce the topic, discuss gaps, and development plan, and present progress [slides]
    • Dingwen: 10 minutes about some specifics of GPUs [slides]
  • 10:15 AM Break: 15 minutes
  • 10:30 AM Compression module library (modules for compression pipeline composition): 75 minutes
    • Kai: 10 minutes to introduce the topic, discuss gaps, and development plan, and present progress [slides]
    • Presentation from Martin (10 minutes) [slides]
    • Presentation from Jon C. (10 minutes) [slides]
    • Presentation from Xin (10 minutes) [slides]
  • 11:45 AM Open discussion: 15 minutes
  • 12:00 PM Working Lunch: how to maximize adoption?: 60 minutes
  • 01:00 PM Visualization, quality assessment, and optimization: 75 minutes
    • Hanqi: 10 minutes to introduce the topic, discuss gaps, and development plan, and present progress [slides]
    • Xiaodong: 10 minutes on Z-checker GPU quality assessment
    • Lin: 10 minutes: How to use topology to evaluate compression output.
    • Robert and Sheng: 10 minutes on optimization [slides]
    • Dingwen student (Daoce): 10 minutes on quality assessment (cosmology application, AMR data) [slides]
    • Hanqi student (Congrong): 10 minutes on quality assessment (topology) [slides]
  • 02:15 PM Co-design of FZ with Application Partners: 45 minutes
  • 03:00 PM Adoption: Encouraging and Tracking, Measure of success: 30 minutes
  • 03:30 PM Break: 15 minutes
  • 03:45 PM Outreach/Education (Classes/Tutorials, BOFs): 30 minutes
  • 04:15 PM Next in-person meeting
  • 04:30 PM Open discussion: 30 minutes
  • 05:00 PM Closing: 10 minutes