Teleconference 2021-11-17

Attendees: Ken Moreland (ORNL), Tushar Athawale (ORNL), Hank Childs (UO), Roxana Bujack (LANL), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Silvio Rizzi (ANL), Manish Mathai (UO), Vicente Bolea (Kitware), Mark Bolstad (SNL)

ECP Updates

• VTK-m featured in an ECP highlight
  • https://www.exascaleproject.org/highlight/ecp-brings-much-needed-visualization-software-to-exascale-and-gpu-accelerated-systems/
• R&D100
  • Thinking of submitting for 2022
  • Big stumbling block: needs to be "created" between Jan 2021 to March 2022
  • Plan: Release VTK-m 2.0, do a copyright assertion
• ECP Project Reviews
  • ECP/VTK-m scheduled for December 9, 1:15PT, 2:15MT, 3:15CT, 4:15ET
    • PI's should be there
  • Template similar to 2019
    • Need to coordinate with ALPINE about application progress
• Crusher test and development system for Frontier
  • Access will be dispensed like on Spock
  • Information Slides
• Software sustainability town halls
  • https://lssw.io/
• 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
    • Submitted highlight on integration with EFFIS
    • Expect to submit another highlight when used in a big run
  • Possible highlight slide on particle advection with WarpX (Matt)
  • Improvement with Kokkos on Spock

Porting Activities

• https://wiki.jlse.anl.gov/display/inteldga/ECP+2.3.4.13+VTK-m
• https://frontier-coe.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FCOE/pages/1161625609/Porting+Activities+O21

ECP task updates

ECP/VTK-m Project Management

Review of [=FY22%3A2 FY22/Q2 tasks]

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.