Teleconference 2023-03-08

Attendees: Ken Moreland (ORNL), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Hank Childs (UO), Sujin Philip (Kitware), Silvio Rizzi (ANL), Mark Bolstad (SNL), Abhishk Yenpure (Kitware), Berk Geveci (Kitware), Jay Wang (ORNL), Ollie Lo (LANL), Jeff Amstutz (Nvidia), Tushar Athawale (ORNL), Roxana Bujack (LANL), Vicente Bolea (Kitware)

ECP Updates

• KPP-3
  • For the in situ benchmark large run, there is some concern about scaling up. Before doing a large Frontier run, we would like to scale up as large as possible on Crusher and ensure it is scaling well there.
• Budget estimations for FY24
  • Asking for 1/4 of FY23 spend plan for FY24Q1
    • Was told by Jordan Williams that should not be an issue
  • Trying to make sure contracts continue
• Highlights
  • Based on KPP-3 work

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

R&D100?

• Thinking of submitting for 2023
• Big stumbling block: needs to be "created" between Jan 2022 to March 2023
• Plan: Release VTK-m 2.0, do a copyright assertion