Teleconference 2021-10-06

Attendees: Ken Moreland (ORNL), Roxana Bujack (LANL), Terry Turton (LANL), Hank Childs (UO), James Kress (ORNL), David Pugmire (ORNL), Nick Davis (SNL), Berk Geveci (Kitware), Abhishek Yenpure (UO), Vicente Bolea (Kitware), Ollie Lo (LANL)

ECP Updates

• Aurora workshop
  • Two parts: October 26-27 (lecture) and December 7-9 (hands on)
  • Deadline to register today!
  • https://www.alcf.anl.gov/events/2021-alcf-aurora-workshop
• Capability Assessment Report (CAR) update due soon
• Software sustainability town halls
  • https://lssw.io/
• 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)
  • Improvement with Kokkos on Spock

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.