CHIUW 2020: Final Details

[Brad C. <bra...@hp...>]

Hi Chapel Community —

As a reminder, CHIUW 2020 is taking place this Friday (May 22) in a free, 
public, online format.  We hope you will be able to join us for some or 
all of the day's talks.  Here are some details in a Q&A format:


What is CHIUW?
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CHIUW is the annual Chapel Implementers and Users workshop, designed to 
bring Chapel programmers and developers together to share recent progress 
and results.  CHIUW 2020 represents the 7th annual instance of the 
workshop series.


Online and free you say?
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Due to Covid-19, CHIUW 2020 will be held online as a Zoom webinar, with 
options to listen in by phone or a few other technologies.  The workshop 
will be open to the public and free of charge.  Anyone who is interested 
in Chapel or parallel programming is welcome to attend, given reasonable
conduct.


Do I need to register?
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There is no firm requirement to register for CHIUW 2020, however there are 
a few reasons to consider doing so:

a) It gives IPDPS (the conference with which CHIUW is associated) a sense
    of the level of interest in CHIUW

b) It gains you access to the IPDPS online proceedings including the
    papers and abstracts associated with the CHIUW presentations

c) It's free

To register, go to the IPDPS homepage (http://www.ipdps.org/) and click 
the red "Register Today" button in the upper right.


How do I join the workshop?
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On the morning of CHIUW 2020, the workshop website will be updated to 
include links to the Zoom meeting and other methods of joining.


Where is the CHIUW 2020 website?
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https://chapel-lang.org/CHIUW2020.html


What will the format of CHIUW 2020 be?
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The bulk of the day will be made up of 10-20 minute talks from the Chapel 
community describing recent efforts with Chapel.  Some of these talks will 
be given live while others will be pre-recorded and streamed over the 
meeting (or you can watch them simultaneously via YouTube).  Each talk 
will wrap up with a short, live Q&A session.

A highlight of the day will be a keynote talk by Bill Reus (US DOD) on 
"Arkouda: Chapel-Powered, Interactive Supercomputing for Data Science".
The workshop will kick off with a "State of the Project" talk and wrap up 
with an open discussion session.

To keep things moving, there won't be any formal meal breaks or extended 
breaks during the day, though there are scheduled pauses to deal with 
technical issues and give people a chance to stretch or grab a snack.


What's the schedule?
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The workshop kicks off at 8:30am PDT, and the full schedule is online at: 
https://chapel-lang.org/CHIUW2020.html


Is there anything I should do to prepare?
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If you're new to Chapel, or need a refresher, you might want to listen to 
the "Chapel 101" presentation that's already linked on the workshop 
website as background.


How can I find out more?
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If you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to ask me.


Hope to "see" you on Friday,
-Brad Chamberlain, on behalf of the CHIUW organizing committee