Teleconference 2019-01-30

Attendees:

ECP updates

No more monthly updates (just quarterly updates)
- Will go over more during these telecons to keep up to date
- Need occasional highlights
  - Dave: comparison of streamlines to hard-coded algorithm
Prep for FY20 and beyond
- Friday we will receive our budget for FY20
  - We were told it will be the same as FY19 and flat-lined through FY23
  - The number we will be given will be for whole project. Expect to keep same division of funding.
  - In practice this is a small year-to-year reduction
  - We should move forward in moving UO's contract to ORNL
- We will also receive a template for a ~3 page "proposal" for what we plan to do
  - General description of what the project will do and provide
  - A very high level description of milestones
  - Due February 15, but for practical reasons we need it done next week. We will move fast. Reserve time to help respond.

[MS-19/04] Ghost Cells
- Dave added a filter that removes ghost cells
- Just made a filter that adds a ghost layer array to structured grids (to mark external areas as ghost).
- It was suggested that for completion of the milestone, the histogram filter should be modified to optionally accept a ghost cell array to ignore inputs from ghost cells.
[MS-19/05] Merge Points
- Ken is on the hook for merging the Merge Points worklet in.
- The functionality will actually be part of clean grid.
[MS-19/06] Connected Components
- No one from LANL is here.
[MS-19/07] Advect Time Varying
- The components are generally there.
- Need to write some tests (currently there are only examples)