Teleconference 2020-08-05

Attendees:

ECP Updates

Reminder that there is a $20K limit for equipment/materials. If over 20K is needed, approval from ORNL office is needed.
Early ALCF system, Yarrow is arriving in August.
- If you need access and are ready to use it now, let me know.
Does anyone need access to Tulip for early ORNL system?
Cray COMPASS program
- Like the Cray User's Group but with NDA
- Provides biweekly technical meetings
- Unfortunately, I didn't get word of signups until the deadline passed
ECP ST Annual Reviews October 5 - 9, 2020
- Signups not available yet
- Let me know your availability beforehand with the following poll
- https://doodle.com/poll/z6wqxyhtdp23rgn7
Exascale preparations: now, 6, 12, 18 months
- Mike and Jim looking for roadmap for exascale preparations
- Looks like this will be a big part of our project review
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)
Special ECP issue of Transition to Accelerated Nodes
- Decided to have an article summarizing publications showing device portability + use cases.

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.