Teleconference 2022-08-03

Attendees: Ken Moreland (ORNL), Ollie Lo (LANL), Mark Bolstad (SNL), Silvio Rizzi (ANL), Tushar Athawale (ORNL), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Nicole Marsaglia (LLNL), Sujin Philip (Kitware), Roxana Bujack (LANL), Terry Turton (LANL), Abhishek Yenpure (Kitware)

ECP Updates

• Finalize next P6 Activity
• Get key people on AD allocations
  • The following AD codes will be running early on Frontier
    • LatticeQCD, ExaSMR, ExaSky (HACC), CANDLE, EQSIM, Subsurface, WDMApp, WarpX
    • For WarpX: they have already run their KPP-1. Further KPP-3 will likely be in ALPINE's project (CSC340).
  • If we are providing software assistance for any of these, or we are planning a KPP-3, we should have a member as part of their allocation.
• 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
  • Possible highlight slide on particle advection with WarpX
  • Some work with MFIX. Going to execute on Summit. Might wait for run on early access machine before highlight.

Porting Activities

• https://wiki.jlse.anl.gov/display/inteldga/ECP+2.3.4.13+VTK-m
• https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/STDA05/Porting+Activities+O21

ECP task updates

ECP/VTK-m Project Management

Roundtable

Status of dashboards

• macos_xcode13 (dragnipur) is back up but there appears to be a git lfs error and the tests are not being run.
  • Causing CI to report an error that does not show up on the dashboard.
• The pascal runner (jool?) seems to be back up.
  • There is fighting over jool with other projects.
• The "external" buildbot builds no longer run.
  • dragnipur already moved to new system.
  • What is the status of osheim? It is not run on buildbot but not in the runners either.

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

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.