Teleconference 2017-01-11

Attendees: Ken Moreland (SNL), Matt Larsen (LLNL), James Kress (ORNL), Berk Geveci (Kitware), Rob Maynard (Kitware), David Lonie (Kitware), Tom Otahal (SNL), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Ollie Lo (LANL), Tom Fogal (NVIDIA), Chris Sewell (LANL), David Rogers (LANL)

There is a merge request for the contour tree.

Chris working on CUDA unified memory. Using CUDA managed malloc, but is it something we can use all the time.

Chris has accepted a job out in California. David Rogers will take over as his roll as PI.

Dongliang is getting ready to run VTK-m code through Oxbow.

Tom Otahal working on a filter wrapper for computing the magnitude of a vector field.

David Lonie started this week on VTK-m. He is working on refactoring exceptions.

Rob has been working on the merge of VTK and VTK-m.

Found a problem with the gradient filter that is using an int division instead of a floating point division.

Found and fixing some problems with the TBB device. As part of this, we are updating the device testing code to ensure that the TBB tests actually run multiple threads.

Matt is continuing a refactor of the ray tracing to allow lower level access.

Matt ran into an issue with exporting instatiations of templated functions on different compilers. He has a workaround, but Rob will help him dive into it further.