[Users] meeting minutes for 2026-08-13

[Steven R. Brandt]

Present: Steve, Peter, Lucas, Roland, Deborah, Noora, Maxwell, Beyhan
Date: 8/13/2026
Chair: Lucas
Minute Taker: Steve

CarpetX and AMReX updates (Roland)
- Problem with Silo and HDF5.
- Jordan's unit test for volume forms in Llama.
- Ticketing system closing in a week (Zach is ready to do the last 
transfer/conversion).
- Close down existing system to prevent new tickets coming in.

MacLachlan updates
- Peter will have time to start looking into that.

Warp Drive Paper Accepted. Yay!

Final check for SPEC benchmark received.

Last week Lucas pushed for creating a page on the wiki showing how to do 
production runs for black hole runs etc.

Mailing list:

MAKINO, Taik:
- Issues configuring PBS for simfactory on Hubble. Group cluster in 
Japan. Steve can maybe help.
- Wants Initial data with arbitrary eqn of state. Beyhan responded.

Tickets:
- 2909 - Remove TAGS from CCL, waiting for Roland to review
- 2970 - Bump SILO version
- 2729 - ET server uptime monitor does not send emails
- 2576 - Illinois GRMD bug, Zach not present
- 2961 - util expression fails to evaluate
- 2958 - Regression in TwoPuncturesX - possibility it's fixed only in 
the release branch
- 2912 - Inconsistent volume computation of volume form - check to see 
it's in the main branch - Two pull requests, one to fix the issue and 
another to make sure the test doesn't run forever.
- 2966 - Fix CMake MPI detection against from-source OpenMPI, just needs 
review
- 2950 - CarpetX ADMBaseX features (Conditional storage, evolution 
parameters)
- 2948 - ADMBaseX fix, PR open, awaiting review
- 2956 - conditional schedule feature request
- 2957 - multiple centering feature request
- 2954 - timeer report contains dodgy code

To infinity, and beyond! - Buzz Lightyear, A Toy Story