[Users] Meeting Minutes

[Steven R. Brandt]

On 02/10/2014 11:07 AM, Roland Haas wrote:
> Present: Peter, Steve, Roland, Erik, Josh, Matt, Philipp
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> * Erik, Ian and Barry are working on simfactory 3 which modularizes
> simfactory and includes facilities to build ExternalLibraries outside of
> Cactus
> ** downloads source code of external libraries only when required
> ** contact Ian Hinder for access to source code
> ** Steve asked if the modules in simfactory would be useful as a basis
> to replace the main Cactus make file with a script
> ** Erik said that so far simfactory 3 treats Cactus as a black box
It might be useful if SF3 automatically detected when the relevant
optionlist had changed.
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> * Caltech would like to extend our EOS interface to handle more complex
> EOS that take an extra independent variable (describing the nuclear
> composition).
> ** it is suggested to leave the current EOS calls in place and to add a
> new set eg including Abar in the new function names
> ** possibly forward the "old" calls to the new ones, passing NULL for
> the extra argument
> ** Fortran callability may be sacrificed in the initial implementation
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> * currently bluewaters shows a significant regression in run speed that
> even occurs when using an old executable. The seems possibly related to
> an update of the MPI stack. Philipp is working with Bluewaters support
> to fix this. Bluewaters is aware of the problem and Cactus is not the
> only code affected.
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> Yours,
> Roland
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