Subject: BLAS Technical Forum
 
We will plan to start the meeting with at 9:00 am on Monday,
April 27th and by 3:00 on Wednesday, April 29th.  There will
be no registration fee, and lunch is provided on April 27-29.

Refer to the BLAS Technical Forum webpage for complete details.
   http://www.netlib.org/utk/papers/blast-forum.html

Monday
9:00 - 9:30 General session and discussion
9:30 - 10:30 parallel breakout sessions
             BLAS Functionality, Sven Hammarling
             BLAS Extensions, Susan Blackford/Linda Kaufman
             Sparse BLAS, Roldan Pozo
             Language Binding Issues, Andrew Lumsdaine
             Extended Precision (Extra Precise) BLAS, Jim Demmel
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 parallel breakout sessions
             C Interface to the BLAS, Clint Whaley
             Lightweight BLAS Fortran 90 Interface, Sven Hammarling
             Interval Arithmetic, Chenyi Hu
             Environmental routines, Jack Dongarra
             Parallel BLAS, Antoine Petitet
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 5:00 group session: reports and discussion
             BLAS Functionality, Sven Hammarling
             BLAS Extensions, Susan Blackford/Linda Kaufman
             Sparse BLAS, Roldan Pozo
             C Interface to the BLAS, Clint Whaley
             Lightweight BLAS Fortran 90 Interface, Sven Hammarling
             Extended Precision (Extra Precise) BLAS, Jim Demmel
             Interval Arithmetic, Chenyi Hu
             Environmental Routines, Jack Dongarra
             Parallel BLAS, Antoine Petitet
             Language Binding Issues, Andrew Lumsdaine

The plan is to have first readings of the following chapters:  
Extensions to the BLAS
Extended Precision (Extra Precise) BLAS
Distributed memory BLAS
Fortran90 interface (as part of Legacy chapter)
Sparse BLAS
and a second reading of the C interface to the Legacy BLAS.


Tuesday
8:00  - 9:00  Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 parallel breakout sessions determined by needs
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 group session: Readings, reports and discussion
12:00 -  1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 group session: Readings, reports and discussion
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00 group session: Readings, reports and discussion
Dinner hosted by SGI/Cray (time to be determined)

Wednesday
8:00  - 9:00  Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 General session and discussion
9:30 - 10:30 parallel breakout sessions
             BLAS Functionality, Sven Hammarling
             BLAS Extensions, Susan Blackford
             Sparse BLAS, Roldan Pozo
             Language Binding Issues, Andrew Lumsdaine
             Extended Precision (Extra Precise) BLAS, Jim Demmel
11:00 - 12:00 parallel breakout sessions
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
             C Interface to the BLAS, Clint Whaley
             Lightweight BLAS Fortran 90 Interface, Sven Hammarling
             Interval Arithmetic, Chenyi Hu
             Environmental routines, Jack Dongarra
             Parallel BLAS, Antoine Petitet

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 group session: Readings, reports, and discussion as needed
3:00 end of meeting