Teleconference 2021-11-17

Attendees: Ken Moreland (ORNL), Tushar Athawale (ORNL), Hank Childs (UO), Roxana Bujack (LANL), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Silvio Rizzi (ANL), Manish Mathai (UO), Vicente Bolea (Kitware), Mark Bolstad (SNL), Berk Geveci (Kitware), Sujin Philip (Kitware), Terry Turton (LANL)

ECP Updates

• VTK-m featured in an ECP highlight
  • https://www.exascaleproject.org/highlight/ecp-brings-much-needed-visualization-software-to-exascale-and-gpu-accelerated-systems/
• R&D100
  • Thinking of submitting for 2022
  • Big stumbling block: needs to be "created" between Jan 2021 to March 2022
  • Plan: Release VTK-m 2.0, do a copyright assertion
• ECP Project Reviews
  • ECP/VTK-m scheduled for December 9, 1:15PT, 2:15MT, 3:15CT, 4:15ET
    • PI's should be there
  • Template similar to 2019
    • Need to coordinate with ALPINE about application progress
• Crusher test and development system for Frontier
  • Access will be dispensed like on Spock
  • Information Slides
• 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

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.