Re: free octconf presentation slot?

[Carlo De Falco]

> On 28 Feb 2017, at 12:42, Olaf Till <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:19:24AM +0000, Carlo De Falco wrote:
>> 
>>> On 28 Feb 2017, at 09:30, Olaf Till <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> can I still get an Octconf presentation slot for "Technical overview
>>> of user code parallelization"?
>>> 
>>> Parallelization is in a package, though the presentation would also
>>> touch Octave and Matlab. I'd prefer Tuesday after lunch.
>>> 
>>> Olaf
>> 
>> Olaf, 
>> 
>> Actually parallelization is in TWO packages: parallel and mpi.
> 
> Please apologize. I usually take care to mention the mpi package, even
> in the 'DESCRIPTION' file of the 'parallel' package. I just forgot
> about it in this case.
> 
>> I could prepare a short talk about the current status and future
>> plans for mpi to complement your talk if you like.
> 
> My talk was to be more on the different principles, and which of the
> principles is used by Matlab and by Octave. I didn't want to describe
> the usage details of the 'parallel' package. So if you talk about
> 'mpi', it would be rather a specialization than a complementing of my
> talk.
> 
> I'd rather suggest that I mention 'mpi' also and put it into the
> context of the description of the principles. If you want to make an
> extra talk about 'mpi' afterwards, I'll have to add a specialization
> to 'parallel' to my talk, which I didn't intend to do.
> 
> Olaf

OK.