Teleconference 2023-11-29

Attendees: Ken Moreland (ORNL), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Jay Wang (ORNL), Sujin Philip (Kitware), Nicole Marsaglia (LLNL), Jeff Amstutz (Nvidia), Abhishek Yenpure (Kitware), Silvio Rizzi (ANL), Berk Geveci (Kitware), Hank Childs (UO), Mark Bolstad (SNL), Vicente Bolea (Kitware), Tushar Athawale (ORNL)

ECP Updates

• Aurora available with no allocations or restrictions
  • Access through April 2024
  • Email support@alcf.anl.gov to get an account on Aurora (if you already have one on Sunspot)
• Highlights
  • Based on KPP-3 work
  • VisIt?
  • A second WDMApp?
  • Possible WarpX (get particle advection into Ascent?)
  • Rendering work with Manish
• Confluence and JIRA going away December 31
• Zoom going away May 31
• IJHPCA paper

Porting Activities

• https://wiki.jlse.anl.gov/display/inteldga/ECP+2.3.4.13+VTK-m
• https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/STDA05/Porting+Activities+Frontier

ECP task updates

ECP/VTK-m Project Management

Roundtable

We should ask AMD for some hardware that Kitware can install in their testing cluster. Ask if they have consumer-level hardware that supports ROCm. This would be easier for Kitware to buy and regardless easier to set up as it would not require extra server mounting hardware.