Teleconference 2018-01-10

Attendees: Ken Moreland (SNL), Matt Letter (SNL), James Kress (ORNL), Matt Larsen (LLNL), Rob Maynard (Kitware), Sujin Philip (Kitware), Berk Geveci (Kitware), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Tom Otahal (SNL), Utkarsh Ayachit (Kitware)

DIY warnings on dashboard.

OpenGL/X test failures back.

Drop MSVC 2013. VTK/ParaView will drop support at end of 2018. Propose to make VTK-m optional until then.

No meeting next two weeks.

Matt Letter increase worklet arguments from 9 to 20. (Also increased function interface arguments.)

Tom has submited a MR for the radix sort. Rob suggested compiling some of it into a library and also specifying more fast passes. Rob also brought up that we want to use radix sort for sort-by-key, which is not happening right now.

Utkarsh has been making updates to DIY to work well in VTK-m and remove warnings. Working on making DIY build optional. Moving forward to making DIY a ThirdParty library.

Given the mounting pressure to drop MSVC 2013, we plan to drop support at the beginning of February.

Rob is working on infrastructure to support scalars to colors. Making some fixes to dot product to support promoting small ints to 32 ints. Also some fixes to the promotion of data in Magnitude.

Progress begin made on getting the virtual coordinate arrays to build everywhere. Down to problems on only a few dashboards.

Sujin working on a probe filter in VTK-m.

Dave is putting together a VTK-m poster for the ECP meeting.

Dave and James integrating VTK-m in ADIOS services.

Matt Larsen has finished implementing spheres for point rendering.