Teleconference 2019-08-14

Attendees: Ken Moreland (SNL), Abhishek Yenpure (UO/SNL), Rob Maynard (Kitware), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Nick Davis (SNL), Sujin Philip (Kitware), Berk Geveci (Kitware), Hank Childs (UO)

ECP Updates

• Budget plus ups
  • Good news
• ECP Annual Meeting
  • Proposals for sessions/tutorials is sooner than you think
  • Hank submitted an ALPINE proposal that includes VTK-m
• ECP review coming up
  • September 23-27
  • 30 minute talk like previous years
  • Will ask for input as necessary
• Capability Assessment Report (CAR) also coming up
  • Will update from last year
• KPP-3 will undergo another iteration
  • There will be a standard scoring system
  • It will likely be similar, but not accumulative

ECP deliverable updates

FY19Q4

• [MS-19/09] Path Geometry
  • Just need User's guide documentation
• [MS-20/01] Lightweight Cell Library
  • Test set that is working for both CPU and GPU
  • By end of August should have all cell types done and start working on VTK-m integration.
• [MS-20/02] Specialized Data Models
  • Just need documentation from Mark
• [MS-20/03] Feature-Sensitive Surface Norm
  • Done.
• [MS-20/04] VTK-m Release 3
  • Done.
• [MS-20/05] Cell Metrics
  • Implementations for 18 metrics.
    • Not all tested thoroughly
  • New student Sam Schwartz is getting up to speed
• [MS-20/06] Contouring
  • Ollie has started coding. Has some design questions he will ask offline.
• [MS-20/07] Advanced Flow Algorithms
  • FTLE is merged in
  • Will work on FTLE documentation next
  • Stream surface merged in a while ago
  • Dave needs to add documentation for stream surface.
  • At hackathon Dave and Abhishek got partical tracing more robust
    • Fixes for distributed memory