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["Adelmann Andreas (PSI)" <andreas.adelmann AT psi.ch>]

Dear Colleagues Nicole Neveu and Christopher Mayes offered to host the 2020 OPAL retreat at SLAC.

Awesome, thanks very much!

We have tentatively selected the first week of April i.e. arrival 28 of March and departure (workshop end) 4 of April.

In case you have problems with  the dates please let me know as soon as possible. 

The retreat is primary for developers or colleagues that would like to become a developer. If you are interest please contact 

me directly. We have tons of interesting work!

We will setup a todo list for the retreat on gitlab soon. 

However I would like to propose 2 grand themes we should discuss and work on:

1) OPAL and Python

2) OPAL and future computing hardware architectures

My 5 cents a vision w.r..t the two points are the following: 

1) Python is/will become the language of science. Fortunately, the way OPAL is designed

    I see no bigger obstacles  to write a wrapper such that

    import opal as op

   should possible!

2) In the Exascale area all computation are done on the hardware accelerator i.e. the GPU. OPAL has

    already, via DKS, an interface to one GPU. However we have to address this new technology in a more general

    way. My plan is to motivate some of the experts from NERSC/LBL to help us while we are at SLAC.

In case you have other ideas, please let me know.

I am looking forward to an interesting, inspiring and productive time at SLAC.

Cheers A

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