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== VT-GPGPU Progress ==
At week ending 20120608 (YYYY/MM/DD), there are 16 subscribed members
to the Virtual Team mailing list.

Karolis organised the first VT-GPGPU phone conference by doodle poll, and this was held on Thursday 7th June (2:00pm CET).

John drafted a new call to encourage the community users to join the VT, this was published as a broadcast by Tiziana


=== VT-GPGPU Phone conference ===
The meeting itself was attended by approximately 11 people. The agenda included:
# Introduction & review of the scope of the Virtual Team,
# Review of the timelines as indicated in the wiki
# User Survey general discussion - Format of Survey & topic headings and questions
# Use Case gathering
# Task assignment - who is volunteering to doing what?
# AOB

'''The brief conclusions of the meeting are:''' 
#  The Wiki shall be used to manage the draft survey
#  The draft survey should be ready in the next 2-3 weeks
## (this is to ensure a timely distribution before summer holidays).
##   Participants in the meeting should suggest headings and questions for the survey.
##  Timelines mentioned for the tasks mentioned on the Wiki Page should be ajusted appropriately.
# We should look at organinising a GPGPU session at the Technical Forum
#  A number of use cases were suggested:
## (R+GPGPU with Biomed, CompChem, MonteCarlo simulations ...)
## We need to document the use cases.
#  Procedure for handling the team reports
## The weekly report should be added to the wiki first
## A notice sent to the members of the page Location,
## Members can update or correct the page as necessary.
# Most of the team communication shall be via the list and via the Wiki.




'''List of attendees:'''

Sophie Ferry

Emanouil Atanassov

John Walsh

Pablo Briongos

Andrea Sartirana

Pierrick Micout

Todor Gurov

Andrea Giachetti

Jan Just Keijser

Tiziana Ferrari

Nuno Ferreira

== Plans for the week ahead ==
# Prepare initial draft outline
# Gather information on Use Cases

== Issues ==
# There were many problems in using EVO to handle the conference call -  Drop outs, microphones inexplicably not working under linux