Teleconference 2020-09-23

Attendees:

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.