[Users] Meeting Minutes 2024-11-14

[Gabella, William E]

https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Main_Page#Weekly_Users_Call

Minutes ET 20241114
9am CST

Attending: Zach E, Lucas TS, David B, Leo RW, Maxwell R, Bill G, Steve B
Chair Leo RW,  Minutes Bill G

Agenda https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Meeting_agenda

* Relase timeline
https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Release_Details#Schedule

**  Announcement
   Roland, just finished draft of release announcement.  Check it out 
and send
any comments/corrections.
https://www.einsteintoolkit.org/about/releases/ET_2024_11_announcement.html


**  Contributors
   Roland, A little behind on contacting new contributors.  David needs 
to tell us all
the contributors to TOVola.

**  Tests
   Roland, Behind on testing of the different clusters.
   Steve on Docker containers. Maxwell also testing, OpenPPD failed.

   Steve, had to switch form OpenMPI to MPIch, OpenMPI not working on 
Docker.  Has
one test that fails.  Docker containers are all good.  And can share the
install command for each of those.  Roland, then we can update the 
Jupyter notebook..

   Roland, can compile on his clusters but not run tests yet.

   Grahyl has a failing test.  Leo is looking into it.

   Roland, issues with HDF5, can set to use external library. Should put 
in that in the Jupyter
notebook.  Leo, probably not looking for different values in the list.  
Maybe chaning the
list is too invasive for a few weeks before release.  Roalnd, Could back 
port it into the
release after testing it further.

   Steve, testsuite on any LSU machines?  Roland, Maybe DB1.  Steve is 
signed up for all
the LSU machines.  Roland not able to login to other machines at LSU.  
Steve should receive
requests for permissions.  Steve added LONI allocation for Roland to run 
on those LSU
machines.  Steve still assigned the testing.

   Roland, trying to install more of the CarpetX so moving from Intel 
backend to LLVM-based
so oneAPI compilers that are Intel can compile this, have better C++ 
support.

* Unanswered questions on mailing list
    None.

* Open Tickets
#2830, CarpetX depends on BLOSC
   Not in the Toolkit.  Roland has poked Erik.

#2173, #2174, #2176, #2172  Poisson, Multi-Patch, BNS, GW150914 Gallery 
examples
   David needs write access, to upload the tar file to downloads 
folder.  Roland will
check on login to BitBucket and give access.

#2818 Failing tests with GCC14.
   Roland, will close it, there is a warning coming out for AMRex.

#2520 update gauge settings in TOV example
   David, will be uploading the gauge examples too.

#2171, and other old tickets
   Roland poked them to bring them high on the list.

* Tickets for Review
#1566 Update Cactus autoconf
   Roland, do not want to make the change this close to release. 
Currently using very
old 2.13 (1999) and new is 2.72 and using the automatic script still 
needs some manual
changes.  So needs more testing.  New Autoconf has advantages for many 
machines.
Review the configure.ac .

[ https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/history/automake-history.html
January 1999, Automake 1.4 and Autoconf 2.13
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/
December 2023, Autoconf 2.72 ]

#2761  some ExternalLibraries require cmake to build
   Roland, several clusters do not have new enough cmake, wants 3.22 
version.  Steve, for
Docker had to install cmake package for each of them.

#2920 NewRadX boundary condition conflicts with symmetry condition
   Roland, would like to have had it in.  A two commit issue, one for 
NewRadX and one for CarpetX.

#963 Improve McLachlan accuracy
   Roland we should get this in next time.

* Any Other Business
   None

* Next Week:
   chair Zach,  minutes Leo

   Steve is at SuperComputing next week.

-- 
Dr. William Gabella