Teleconference 2020-08-19

Attendees:

ECP Updates

• ECP Independent Project Review pushed from October to February
  • Means several of our deadlines have been pushed back
  • ECP ST Annual Reviews: Delayed to Dec 7-11
  • Still "keen" on collecting information about early access systems by end of August
• Exascale preparations: now, 6, 12, 18 months
  • Mike and Jim looking for roadmap for exascale preparations
  • Looks like this will be a big part of our project review
• ECP Annual meeting announced: April 12-15
  • Obviously contingent on travel restrictions being lifted
• 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)
• Special ECP issue of Transition to Accelerated Nodes
  • Decided to have an article summarizing publications showing device portability + use cases.

ECP task updates

ECP/VTK-m Project Management

Review schedule changes.

Roundtable

Campaign to compile on new pre-exascale architectures by October.

• Would organizing a virtual code sprint help (or hinder)?

Is sccache working with build:ubuntu1804_kokkos?

Is there an issue with GCC 4.8 tests?

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.