skeletons.txt

Chicago:
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  - Skeletons -- reduced applications, that capture the primary
    compute and data flows and intereactions

  - The skeleton/framework will never be filled in with real code

  - Skeletons do not execute. They are static descriptions expressed
    in multiple formats.

  - Skeletons are produced by a parser and the application of some
    rule/logic to define and relate tasks (looking at the code I still
    think they are 99% a parser but I happy to be proven wrong). (MT)

  - Skeleton are not meant to be a scaled-down, trimmed version of any
    real-life application. They describe a predefined subset of
    parameters that have been observed to be common to multiple
    real-life distributed application. (MT)

  - Skeletons will never run a real-life workload. Skeleton tasks will
    never use a real-life program, just commands as 'wait' and 'dd'.
    (MT)

  - The output of a skeleton is either a DAG/DAX that describes the
    tasks and dependencies of an application, or perhaps the actual
    skeleton application, ready to run.

  - Jon/Dan: application monitoring traces could provide parameters to
    construct skeletons for insufficiently understood / modeled
    applications.

  - My thought is to not go too deep into MPI task description.
    Otherwise, the MPI task configuration would be another skeleton
    framework. On the other hand, I am not sure how coarse the MPI
    task description should be. (ZZ)


Rutgers:
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  - it is a real application, albeit reduced to remove any "execution
    interference". we will likely make assumptions about what is being
    reduced. Therefore there can be multiple skeletons for one given
    application

  - it may still have multiple patterns,  coordination patterns,
    communication patterns, but it isn't defined by the composition of
    the patterns

  - the previous point said differently, a skeleton is a top-down
    decomposition of an application not a bottom-up construction to
    mimic an application.

  - "skeleton-based application framework" (SJ) ?