Teleconference 2018-11-28

Attendees:

ECP notes and announcements:

• End of Q1 coming up fast!
  • At the beginning of December will start collecting progress for month/quarter.
  • Want to have all of the milestones completed by December 19 at the latest.
• Annual meeting is soon (January 14-18)
  • Everyone going must register by December 14 at https://ecpannualmeeting.com/
  • Dave P. is working on our poster
  • We are part of a tutorial proposal
• Mike Heroux is looking for "User Stories"
  • Is there anything that ECP can change that would help us?
  • Should we request something about computer time?
    • Small amount of discretionary time for debugging and performance testing?
    • Set up nightly build/test?
  • Ask to fund everyone directly instead of through subcontracts?
  • Anything else about administration?
• A new "Capability Assessment Report" revision is coming up
  • I don't expect anyone other than myself to have to respond, but I will let you know.

ECP deliverable updates:

• [MS-18/09] Better Dynamic Types Impl
• [MS-19/01] VTK-m Release 2
• [MS-19/02] Productionize zfp compression
• [MS-19/03] Clip

Where should the VTK-m User's Guide be posted?

Consolidating worklet tests

• MR 1432 merged
• Why are the executables named Worklet_list_of_devices? Why not follow the UnitTests_vtkm_worklet_testing convention?
• Will the rendering tests be converted as well?
• Should there be a simplified way to specify devices on the command line?
  • Ken suggested having a vtkm::Initialize method that would consolidate all initialize methods (such as this and InitLogging).