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Reference check summary:

OK DOIs

- 10.5281/zenodo.598202 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.1409043 is OK
- 10.1145/3152041.3152084 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- https://doi.org/10.1145/3337821.3337915 may be missing for title: Runtime Adaptive Task Inlining on Asynchronous Multitasking Runtime Systems
- https://doi.org/10.1109/espm2.2018.00009 may be missing for title: Asynchronous Execution of Python Code on Task-Based Runtime Systems
- https://doi.org/10.1109/mlhpc49564.2019.00009 may be missing for title: Scheduling Optimization of Parallel Linear Algebra Algorithms using Supervised Learning
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3078155.3078187 may be missing for title: Using SYCL as an implementation framework for hpx. compute
- https://doi.org/10.1109/espm2.2018.00006 may be missing for title: Integration of CUDA Processing within the C++ Library for Parallelism and Concurrency (HPX)
- https://doi.org/10.14529/jsfi150305 may be missing for title: An autonomic performance environment for exascale
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipdrm49579.2019.00008 may be missing for title: Assessing the Performance Impact of using an Active Global Address Space in HPX: A Case for AGAS
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icppw.2009.14 may be missing for title: ParalleX: An Advanced Parallel Execution Model for Scaling-impaired Applications
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1964218.1964232 may be missing for title: Preliminary design examination of the ParalleX system from a Software and Hardware Perspective
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1094342018819744 may be missing for title: Harnessing Billions of Tasks for a Scalable Portable Hydrodynamic Simulation of the Merger of two Stars
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipdpsw.2018.00173 may be missing for title: Methodology for Adaptive Active Message Coalescing in Task Based Runtime Systems
- https://doi.org/10.2172/1614897 may be missing for title: Implementing Software Resiliency in HPX for Extreme Scale Computing

INVALID DOIs

- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87475-1_39 is INVALID because of 'https://doi.org/' prefix

👋 @bhatele & @davidbeckingsale - thanks for agreeing to review this submission. Please be sure to read the comments above, and let me know if you have any questions. Basically, your job is to check the article proof and repository and check items off your checklist above. (And note that you will have to accept the invitation before you will be able to do so.)

If you see small problems that need to be discussed, feel free to discuss them here. But if you can, create a new issue in the [target repository]](https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx) and link to this review thread in that issue to create a corresponding breadcrumb trail here.

I look forward to seeing how this review goes

👋 @diehlpk - note that whedon suggests changes in your references too, though whedon is not always correct, so please check and make the appropriate changes.

You can rerun the commands above to ask whedon to regenerate the pdf and check the references again as needed.

@diehlpk - can you offer a quick bit of rationale behind author selection? A couple of contributors are not on the author list, but have more contributions (in terms of commits/loc) than some of the other authors.

@davidbeckingsale We sent some an email and one reminder to our mailing lists and invited people to contribute to the paper before the deadline. The current list of authors followed the invitation and contributed to the paper. However, we could not contact over 100 contributors in person.

@davidbeckingsale We sent some an email and one reminder to our mailing lists and invited people to contribute to the paper before the deadline. The current list of authors followed the invitation and contributed to the paper. However, we could not contact over 100 contributors in person.

Perfect. Sorry for being pedantic, I am just trying to make sure that the rationale for each of the checklist points is document somewhere 😄

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Reference check summary:

OK DOIs

- 10.1145/3337821.3337915 is OK
- 10.1109/espm2.2018.00009 is OK
- 10.1109/mlhpc49564.2019.00009 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.598202 is OK
- 10.1145/3078155.3078187 is OK
- 10.1109/espm2.2018.00006 is OK
- 10.14529/jsfi150305 is OK
- 10.1177/1094342018819744 is OK
- 10.1109/ipdrm49579.2019.00008 is OK
- 10.1109/icppw.2009.14 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.1409043 is OK
- 10.1145/1964218.1964232 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-540-87475-1_39 is OK
- 10.1109/ipdpsw.2018.00173 is OK
- 10.1145/3152041.3152084 is OK
- 10.2172/1614897 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- https://doi.org/10.1177/1094342018819744 may be missing for title: Harnessing Billions of Tasks for a Scalable Portable Hydrodynamic Simulation of the Merger of two Stars

INVALID DOIs

- None

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Reference check summary:

OK DOIs

- 10.1145/3337821.3337915 is OK
- 10.1109/espm2.2018.00009 is OK
- 10.1109/mlhpc49564.2019.00009 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.598202 is OK
- 10.1145/3078155.3078187 is OK
- 10.1109/espm2.2018.00006 is OK
- 10.14529/jsfi150305 is OK
- 10.1177/1094342018819744 is OK
- 10.1109/ipdrm49579.2019.00008 is OK
- 10.1109/icppw.2009.14 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.1409043 is OK
- 10.1145/1964218.1964232 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-540-87475-1_39 is OK
- 10.1177/1094342018819744 is OK
- 10.1109/ipdpsw.2018.00173 is OK
- 10.1145/3152041.3152084 is OK
- 10.2172/1614897 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- None

INVALID DOIs

- None

@danielskatz We fixed all issues with the DOI reported by whedon.

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@diehlpk - I don't feel that the paper addresses the following review point: "State of the field: Do the authors describe how this software compares to other commonly-used packages?"

Could you please add a brief overview of related work and compare hpx to these other packages?

👋 @diehlpk - This is just to make sure you've seen the comments and are working on responding to them...

👋 @bhatele - have you had a chance to start your review? Can you let us know your status?

👋 @diehlpk - This is just to make sure you've seen the comments and are working on responding to them...

We're working on them. Thanks.

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Reference check summary:

OK DOIs

- 10.1145/3337821.3337915 is OK
- 10.1109/espm2.2018.00009 is OK
- 10.1109/mlhpc49564.2019.00009 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.598202 is OK
- 10.1145/3078155.3078187 is OK
- 10.1109/espm2.2018.00006 is OK
- 10.14529/jsfi150305 is OK
- 10.1177/1094342018819744 is OK
- 10.1109/ipdrm49579.2019.00008 is OK
- 10.1109/icppw.2009.14 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.1409043 is OK
- 10.1145/1964218.1964232 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-540-87475-1_39 is OK
- 10.1177/1094342018819744 is OK
- 10.1109/ipdpsw.2018.00173 is OK
- 10.1145/3152041.3152084 is OK
- 10.2172/1614897 is OK
- 10.1109/HPDC.2000.868632 is OK
- 10.1177/1094342007078442 is OK
- 10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.07.003 is OK
- 10.1109/SC.2012.71 is OK
- 10.1109/MCSE.2013.98 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- None

INVALID DOIs

- None

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@davidbeckingsale

We highlighted the review paper

Thoman, P., Dichev, K., Heller, T. et al. A taxonomy of task-based parallel programming technologies for high-performance > computing. J Supercomput 74, 1422–1434 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-018-2238-4

which is a very nice overview of AMTS. In addition, we added a paragraph to the paper and highlighted that the main features of HPX is the distributed computing capability with some other notable AMTS. Among this, the future-proof C++ standard conforming API is the major difference.

I am sorry for the delay, but I had two important deadlines this week.

👋 @bhatele & @davidbeckingsale - How are your reviews coming? Can you let us know your status?

@danielskatz - my checklist shows the tasks I have completed. I had some other priorities last week but will make more review progress this week.

👋 @bhatele - When will you be able to start this?