[Difx-users] Difx-users Digest, Vol 96, Issue 1 {External}

[Leonid Petrov]

Adam,

   Me too. For many US researches travels to conferences
are not approved now even if travel funds are available.

Leonid

> On 2025-09-03 12:17, John Barrett via Difx-users wrote:
> Hi  Adam,
> 
> Likewise, we here at Haystack would be interested if there is a remote
> participation option for the DiFX meeting. Travel funding is
> particularly tight at the moment (limited to essential travel only, no
> conferences), so we will not be able to participate in-person
> regardless of location. Unfortunately, it appears unlikely this
> situation will change in the near future.
> 
> Best,
> 
> John
> 
> On 9/3/25 12:00 PM, difx-users-request at listmgr.nrao.edu wrote:
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>> 1. Re: Plans for DiFX 2.9 release and 2025 workshop {External}
>> {External} (Frederic Jaron)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 12:30:13 +0200
>> From: Frederic Jaron <fjaron at mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
>> To: Adam Deller <adeller at astro.swin.edu.au>, difxusers
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>> Subject: Re: [Difx-users] Plans for DiFX 2.9 release and 2025
>> workshop
>> {External} {External}
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>> Hi Adam,
>> 
>> I'd be interested in joining the DiFX users meeting, but I won't
>> attend
>> in person in this location. Online would be an interesting option.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Frederic
>> 
>> On 8/26/25 03:14, Adam Deller via Difx-users wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi DiFX users,
>>> 
>>> It has been quite some time since the last release but we are now
>>> very
>>> close to finalising and releasing DiFX 2.9.0. Shaoguang Guo is
>>> presently visiting me at Swinburne and we are putting in an effort
>>> 
>>> over this week to finalise all the change logs, harmonising the
>>> 2.9
>>> alpha branch with main, and plan to tag the release as soon as
>>> that is
>>> done (in the next week or so). To the best of our knowledge all
>>> relevant?testing has been completed, so if anyone is still running
>>> 
>>> tests on the 2.9.0a branch and wants to hold the release until
>>> that is
>>> completed, please let me know.? Going forward we will try to
>>> return to
>>> a ~6 monthly update cycle, as it was quite a long time between
>>> major
>>> releases this time around.
>>> 
>>> I will be starting a few discussions on the DiFX github repo
>>> related
>>> to benchmarking and release processes, so please follow the repo
>>> at
>>> https://github.com/difx/difx if you want to stay up to date with
>>> those
>>> discussions. One of those will be regarding benchmarking, as there
>>> is
>>> renewed interest in having some up-to-date performance benchmarks
>>> of
>>> single-server performance to compare recent CPU models.
>>> 
>>> The other question for the user group regards a workshop for 2025.
>>> At
>>> this point, although we'd explored some options, no location or
>>> date
>>> had been set for a DiFX users and developers meeting, and 2025 is
>>> rapidly running out of road! Shaoguang has raised the possibility
>>> of
>>> hosting a meeting in Shanghai in November 2025 - *can I please ask
>>> 
>>> that you respond if you are 1) interested and likely able to
>>> attend
>>> this location and time, or 2) interested in attending a
>>> users/developers workshop but would be unable to make that
>>> location or
>>> time.*
>>> 
>>> Thanks, and stay tuned for a 2.9.0 release announcement soon!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adam
>>> 
>>> --
>>> !=============================================================!
>>> Prof. Adam Deller
>>> Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing
>>> Swinburne University of Technology
>>> John St, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
>>> phone: +61 3 9214 5307
>>> fax: +61 3 9214 8797
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