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• Previous meeting minutes: 2022-03-24 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes
• LDCG proposals process (Leonardo Garcia)
• Flang (Shun Kamatsuka, Gen Shimada)
• OpenBMC proposal (if time permits) (Leonardo Garcia)
• LDCG SC Chair (Joakim Bech)
• AOB

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Minutes

• LDCG proposals process
  
  • LDCG shared folder available. If you haven't receive an e-mail with the access information, please, let Leonardo Garcia know.
    • It will not substitute this Confluence space.
    • It will just be a central repository for the LDCG files.
  • LDCG proposals process:
    • Jonathan: Issue accessing Google docs, should make sure it's accessible from confluence.

• Flang (Shun Kamatsuka, Gen Shimada)
  • Kamatsuka-san gave an introduction to Flang.
  • Shimada-san, described how Fortran is used and why it is being revived.
    • Article from May 5th is used by Nvidia, Arm, IBM, AMD, DoE and NASA to give a few examples. Several updates since 2000 (version?).
    • Claims to have better performance than other popular programming languages (Java given as an example).
    • Natively parallel, i.e., single core or multicore, almost no difference in coding paradigm.
    • They have a big library. Usage is typically computing, science and engineering. For example, weather prediction, statistics, finance etc.
    • Main programming language in High Performance Computing (HPC).
    • Users spread across the world, but the United State have the most companies using it. There are many legacy systems that still are using Fortran.
    • Two open source compilers, gfortran and Flang. Gravity towards Flang/LLVM. Good license model for companies (Apache License 2.0).
    • Linaro is already doing Fortran work in toolchain, ... OpenBLAS.
  • Joey Ye: What is Fujitsu's contribution and what areas?
  • Kamatsuka-san: Current haven't contribute, but plan to do so in the near future. Features related to optimization.
  • Joey Ye: Uses classic Flang, but looking forward to the new Flang. Have a few engineers working on it (via OpenAMP/MP?). 
  • Joakim: Our there any outstanding issue that needs be address.
  • Leonardo: Aarch64 support not complete.
• OpenBMC proposal (Leonardo Garcia)
  • Leonardo
    • Has been trying to look into all information we've received, this is a summary of my findings.
    • There is momentum in OpenBMC.
    • Although Arm is a key player, the involvement from the Arm community is limited.

• LDCG SC Chair
  • When Elsie left, Joakim temporarily took over as the LDCG SC Chair while we were hiring a replacement for Elsie.
  • Leonardo joined a couple of months ago and is now up to speed on LDCG topics, so Joakim is out and from now on he is and Leonardo becomes the new LDCG SC Chair.
• AOB