Teleconference 2019-09-04

Attendees: Ken Moreland (SNL), Rob Maynard (Kitware), Matt Larsen (LLNL), Dave Pugmire (ORNL), Nick Davis (SNL), Allie Vacanti (Kitware), Ollie Lo (LANL)

ECP Updates

• ECP review coming up
  • September 26, 5:45 ET
  • Slides will be posted soon
• Capability Assessment Report (CAR) also coming up
  • Will update from last year
• KPP-3 will undergo another iteration
  • There will be a standard scoring system
  • It will likely be similar, but not accumulative

ECP deliverable updates

FY19Q4

• [MS-19/09] Path Geometry
  • Done
  • Might need to document poly line
• [MS-20/01] Lightweight Cell Library
  • Have implementations for all the cells
• [MS-20/02] Specialized Data Models
  • Just need documentation from Mark
• [MS-20/05] Cell Metrics
  • Implementations for 18 metrics.
    • Not all tested thoroughly
  • New student Sam Schwartz is getting up to speed
• [MS-20/06] Contouring
  • All 3D cells have been covered
  • Still need 2D and 1D
  • It means that we have to change from CellSetSingleType to CellSetExplicit
    • Rob still wants to have a special case for structured cell sets
  • Added a tangle field source to help with testing
• [MS-20/07] Advanced Flow Algorithms
  • Done

Rountable notes

Discussion on Aurora/Frontier porting. OpenMP 5 vs Kokkos/Sync/HIP. OpenMP 5 first. Investigate HIP later.

What issues are we facing? Lots of unknowns, compile times an issue, virtual methods may be removed. We may need to add a milestone addressing compile times.