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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Present: Peter D., Roland H., Miguel G., Kenneth S. , David B., Steven B., Atul K, Nicolas C., Maria H. , Zach E.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">-Roland: mentioned that February is the due date. The SPEC CPU 2017 McLachlan submission is going to be submitted again. Let -Steve and Roland if you want to contribute or help. The link to tasks list is <a href="https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2470" class="">https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2470</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">-Steve: SPEC install worked fine in his own friendly environment. He thinks it would be relatively easy to do it in any other system. The installation instructions should be simple except
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://cactuscode.org" class="">cactuscode.org</a> now hosted on Github pages [RH]</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Cactus website was moved to Github with minor changes to the original site. </span></div>
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-Nick an undergraduate student in Cambridge, put together a tutorial for the ET. He ran the ET on Amazon Web Services (AWS) following the same process as in any regular computer except that he needed to add lamboot command due to an error in simfactory. </div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">-It was proposed with no objections to include Frank’s, Miguel’s and Nick’s tutorial on wiki and website (will require pdf to html conversion) .</span></div>
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-Roland: some small issues. TeX to HTML conversion is failing. Might be due to Ubuntu and Debian configuration differences. </div>
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-The guide for next release should be upgraded to a more linear version. </div>
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-If somebody wish to include something in the next release it should be mentioned in the mailing list or weekly meeting before February 2021. </div>
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ET on macOS BigSur[RH]</li></ul>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Macport works but OpenMPI is not working, some works arounds. MPICH problems with hwloc. In conclusion for the moment ET is not supporting BigSur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Chair: Peter D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Chair: Steve B.</span></div>
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Last meeting of the year is December 17,2020 coming back on January 7, 2021.</div>
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-<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Kenneth</span> is cleaning the BSSN code and adding more features. He successfully created a validation test between the sympy expression created by the parser and the NRPy expression.</div>
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