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<div class="">On 6 Feb 2020, at 16:03, Erik Schnetter <<a href="mailto:schnetter@cct.lsu.edu" class="">schnetter@cct.lsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:47 AM Roland Haas <<a href="mailto:rhaas@illinois.edu" class="">rhaas@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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* Are we ready to turn off <a href="http://CactusCode.org" class="">CactusCode.org</a>?<br class="">
** all in favor for moving<br class="">
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I notice that this topic has been mentioned in the notes on the<br class="">
Einstein Toolkit mailing list, but has not been announced (in an email<br class="">
of its own), nor has it been mentioned on the Cactus mailing lists at<br class="">
all.<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">I understand that most of the active development these days is<br class="">
happening on the context of the Einstein Toolkit, and that maintaining<br class="">
the <a href="http://cactuscode.org" class="">cactuscode.org</a> domain web server seems like a burden, but Cactus<br class="">
is usable by itself, and publicly stating that Cactus is subsumed by<br class="">
the Einstein Toolkit greatly reduces the impact of the Toolkit on the<br class="">
computational science side. This probably won't affect physics<br class="">
funding, but this will make it more difficult to obtain funding from<br class="">
non-astrophysics sources. For example, CISE might ask why they should<br class="">
fund an astrophysics-only project where the maintainers decided<br class="">
deliberately to restrict the target audience of their software.</blockquote>
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<div>I agree. For some of the non-NR projects I am now working on, I feel like I'm constantly missing and reinventing things that Cactus provides. Some of these projects might benefit from being Cactus thorns. Already, selling Cactus to people might be a
little difficult, due to the learning curve and the extra "baggage" that you need to learn. This wouldn't be helped by Cactus being perceived as "a relativity code".</div>
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