Minutes from the Einstein Toolkit Meeting on August 11, 2014.
Present:
Frank, Peter, Barry, Josef, Ian, Steve, Josh, Jonah.
Tickets:
778: PittNullCode is slow to compile. Frank is not sure what to do about it. According to Josef there is a constraint function that is slow. Josef usually does not compile this file. Ask Bela and or Roland about suggestions about what to do. Check if newer Intel compilers compiles it faster. Is it an option to remove it from ET.
?: Issue with using less than a full node in Simfactory. Ian suggest to postpone support until Simfactory3. Steve suggest a simple fix, but Ian thinks it will be to difficult. Simfactory3 needs some attention (Erik, Barry, Ian). One person is using it in production at the AEI for managing simulations. The code is rewritten and much more maintainable.
1648: Extract information from mpiCC to figure out how to compile Cactus with MPI. Steve wants to know if it works on system he hasn't tried. Try it on the usual ET release test machines. Steve will propose another patch to take into account comments from Ian.
1650: Patch is reviewed ok. Steve will commit and close.
1618: Steve looked at the patch and found that not all comments about previous has been addressed. Steve is talking to Jian and Geng Bin. Keep the ticket open.
1518: Patch for expression parsing to fix inconsistency in Cactus expression parsing. Standard test suites pass. Needs somebody to review the patch.
Git transition:
Almost final version of repositories are available. A few minor issues to beresolved.
1: Some arrangements have thorns that are not part of ET. 2: PUGHIO thorns have been moved into PUGH. 3: Some username mappings are missing. Frank will resolve. 4: Some thorns have changes associated with tags. This is not possible in git.
Barry invites people to try out the repositories. Barry has a new ET thornlist. Frank has given Barry commit right to manifest so he shoiuld commit. Barry will send a summary with instructions to the mailing list.
Cheers,
Peter