[Users] Einstein Toolkit Meeting Minutes

[Frank Loeffler]

Present were: Erik, Ian, Steve, Frank, Peter, Barry, Josef, Roland,
(problems with audio), and others I don't remember anymore (sorry, but
they also didn't speak up)

We first talked about plans for 2015. Mentioned were:

- ET meeting in Europe, doodle poll about location and time
  - either in Italy (close to MG meeting) or Sweden (Micra)
  - either mid-July or mid-end August
- Improving timelevel handling and making Carpet more flexible wrt time
  prolongation orders etc (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/620)
- Dependency-based scheduling, to avoid errors and allow potential
  parallelization
- Make tests independent of number of processes, or run on the right
  number (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1075,
  https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1230).
- Get tickets under control
  (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1698)
- Adding some Hydro analysis tools used by Frank and the Parma group
- Working on Chemora, adding to the ET eventually
- Getting some more interesting single-NS initial data into the ET
- Adding Llama. Since Llama is public now, and officially released
  there would need to be a chaperon.
- Including an elliptic solver

Specific tickets/issues mentioned were
- having a type that is CCTK_INT8 by default on 64-bit platforms
  Here the consensus seems to be that using CCTK_INT as
  platform-dependent type should be ok.
- Adding a new type CCTK_INT16
- Merging the McLachlan rewrite branch
  There is a wiki page about that:
https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Rewrite_McLachlan
  If nobody objects this looks like to be happening soon.
- The Jenkins Server will move to the PI. Erik and Ian will coordinate
  on that, and Frank volunteered to help.
- McLachlan will move to bitbucket. The timeframe was not fixed, but is
  expected to be "soonish".

Frank

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