Teleconference 2020-08-05

Attendees:

ECP Updates

• Reminder that there is a $20K limit for equipment/materials. If over 20K is needed, approval from ORNL office is needed.
• Early ALCF system, Yarrow is arriving in August.
  • If you need access and are ready to use it now, let me know.
• Does anyone need access to Tulip for early ORNL system?
• Cray COMPASS program
  • Like the Cray User's Group but with NDA
  • Provides biweekly technical meetings
  • Unfortunately, I didn't get word of signups until the deadline passed
• ECP ST Annual Reviews October 5 - 9, 2020
  • Signups not available yet
  • Let me know your availability beforehand with the following poll
  • https://doodle.com/poll/z6wqxyhtdp23rgn7
• 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
• 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

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.