Teleconference 2020-09-16

Attendees: Ken Moreland (SNL), Rob Maynard (Kitware), Ollie Lo (LANL), David Pugmire (ORNL), James Kress (ORNL), Hank Childs (UO), Nick Davis (SNL), Matt Larsen (LLNL), Berk Geveci (Kitware), Abishek Yenpure (UO), Vicente Bolea (Kitware)

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
• 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
    • 2 probable highlights: (1) Its in Effis (2) it was used in a big run
• Special ECP issue of Transition to Accelerated Nodes
  • Decided to have an article summarizing publications showing device portability + use cases.

Porting Activities

• https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/STDA05/Porting+Activities+A21
• https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/STDA05/Porting+Activities+O21

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.