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Meeting minutes:\\
Week of Nov. 8th - 12th \\

Participants:\\
Martin Casado, Noel Keen\\

Sunday the 7th:\\

I received an email from Noel with a preliminary description of the PPF's
cost benefits analysis.  Noel agrees that it will be difficult
to come up with a reasonable estimate, but for the purpose of
the proposal we will provide an estimate as best we can.
Noel's email can be viewed in the archived email section.\\

I have sent an email to Noel with questions concerning the following
topics:\\
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\item Can we possibly save the current state of a run, in the advent of a crash?
      For example if a node goes down, can we do a memory dump to preserve the
      state of the problem to be resumed when the node is fixed?
\item How long is the PPF expected to be in use?
\item Should I pull a preliminary interface description from the fax?
\item What actual deliverables are expected through the course of the project?
\end{itemize}

This email can be viewed in the email section.

Tuesday November 9th:\\

Noel replied to my email answering a lot of the questions I had asked, he
was a little bit vague on the issue of the interface for the PPF.  During
or meeting on Wednesday I'll try and clarify that

Friday November 12th:\\

Noel and I had a meeting at 3 p.m. over the telephone.  During the meeting 
we discussed the following:\\

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\item Switching our focus to design and architecture
  \begin{itemize}
   \item Decide on a final interface
   \item Construct a preliminary design architecture
   \item Break development plan into tasks
   \item Create a schedule from those tasks 
  \end{itemize}
\item Handling the problem where a node's conventional memory gets saturated.
      In the event that this happens, we decided to write all particles to disk
      to be dealt with after some of the memory has been freed. 
\item Noel's progress on creating a fake physics package to use with PolyMesh.
\item The possibility of using the IMC as a basis for development. 
\end{itemize}

The meeting concluded with me promising to send Noel my write-ups on
design and architecture possibilities which I will do this weekend.

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