From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Thu Feb 7 15:50:56 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom6 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom6@open-std.org Received: by open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id ED1F2D7A81; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:50:55 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from mail.edogawa-u.ac.jp (mail.edogawa-u.ac.jp [210.235.130.12]) by open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122C0393D9 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:50:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.edogawa-u.ac.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.edogawa-u.ac.jp with SMTP id m17EoWcO020124 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:50:32 +0900 (JST) Received: (qmail 20120 invoked by uid 0); 7 Feb 2008 23:50:32 +0900 Received: from localhost (HELO mail.edogawa-u.ac.jp) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Feb 2008 23:50:32 +0900 Received: from TAKATA-N9.edogawa-u.ac.jp (vpn144009.edogawa-u.ac.jp [210.235.144.9]) by mail.edogawa-u.ac.jp with ESMTP id m17EoNS5020004 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:50:27 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <5.1.1.11.2.20080207215537.022628d0@mail.edogawa-u.ac.jp> X-Sender: takata@mail.edogawa-u.ac.jp X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1J Jr5-rev2 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:50:21 +0900 To: sc22wg5@open-std.org From: TAKATA Masayuki Subject: Japan National Activity Report Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Dear John and WG5, Here is my report to the meeting. Thank you, John, for offering a help for writing our proposal regarding co-arrays. Unfortunately, I had no time to ask for a help. I hope my report is understandable and useful. I have to burn the midnight oil tonight, again, for a totally unrelated big task. See you all in Las Vegas. Regards, Makki ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1706 Japan National Activity Report at the WG5 Las Vegas meeting in February 10-15, 2008 by TAKATA Masayuki IPSJ/ITSCJ/SC22/Fortran WG has 8 active members (5 from vendors and 3 from universities), and monthly meets face to face for one hour, after the meetings for Japanese version of Fortran 2003, for which 2 more active members are also working. The translation work, started in April, 2005, is behind the schedule. Japanese Fortran 2003 will be published in 2008. Major topics discussed at the recent meetings are: (1) Contents of the current revision Japan abstained from the resolution L5, to discuss more the co-array feature in the country. We came to conclusion that co-array feature should be published as a new Part of the Fortran standard. Main reasons are as follow: - It is designed for a particular architecture. We couldn't agree that it is useful or even not harmful on other architectures. - The architecture or memory model itself, for which co-array can gain efficiency may not survive the current competitive situation. - Some people say that the current proposed co-array feature for F2008 is not sufficient for there needs. If we add some more, it is harder to achieve consensus. The idea of a Type 2 TR was also discussed. Generally speaking, a TR is not translated into Japanese, because we don't have enough human resource. The two TRs for Fortran was not, while Part 2 and 3 were translated. The publication of such a TR would be too weak for promoting implementation of such a controversial feature. A governmental procurement, for example, cannot refer to a TR, but a standard (Part 4). (2) C Interop TR Japan nominated two members, Hiroyuki SATO and Fumitoshi SATO, as primary developers, and two, Minoru TANAKA and TAKATA Masayuki, as additional reviewers for the development body. (3) Tokyo meeting in November, 2008 The plan is outlined below: - November 16-21, at Kikai Shinko Kaikan, Minato-ku, Tokyo (It's just in front of the Tokyo Tower, the most recognizable landmark.) - 3 meeting rooms, with wireless access, which can reach the J3 server - text/PDF printing and photo copying services - coffee breaks and FIDS in the main meeting room - group booking at Shiba Park Hotel (a few more hotels are suggested) - a dinner and a small city tour sponsored by ITSCJ - accompanying persons are also welcome -- Takata, Masayuki: Professor Edogawa University, Nagareyama, Chiba 270-0198 Japan phone:+81-4-7152-0661ext546 fax:+81-4-7154-2490 http://www.edogawa-u.ac.jp/~takata/