Teleconference 2021-09-08

Attendees: Ken Moreland (ORNL), Ollie Lo (LANL), Mark Bolstad (SNL), Matt Larsen (LLNL), Roxana Bujack (LANL), Abhishek Yenpure (UO), James Kress (ORNL), Terry Turton (LANL), Hank Childs (UO), Silvia Rizzi (ANL), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Nick Davis (SNL), Vicente Bolea (Kitware), Berk Geveci (Kitware)

ECP Updates

• Software sustainability town halls
  • Could be important for future funding
• Let's think about possible highlights
  • App engagement
  • Success with porting (e.g. run on Aurora)
  • Engagement with other ST teams (e.g. using Kokkos)
  • WDM
    • Submitted highlight on integration with EFFIS
    • Expect to submit another highlight when used in a big run
  • Possible highlight slide on particle advection with WarpX (Matt)

Porting Activities

• https://wiki.jlse.anl.gov/display/inteldga/ECP+2.3.4.13+VTK-m
• https://frontier-coe.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FCOE/pages/1161625609/Porting+Activities+O21

ECP task updates

ECP/VTK-m Project Management

Roundtable

Has anyone been looking at compiling both VTK-m and Ascent over Kokkos? We have had to do some special things under CUDA, and we might expect there to be some integration issues under Kokkos and its various backends as well.

Filter redesign requirements: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk-m/-/issues/601

Matt working on WarpX highlight.

Rename master branch?

• Need to wait for some changes to git before the transition (for some automated features of repo).
• Can we for a time have a master that mirrors the new default?
  • Don't know, but seems possible. Will have to look into that.