Present: Frank, Peter, Steve, Matt, Roland, Ian, Erik, Yosef
* intel compiler miscompiles NewRad ** Peter tried intel 15 ** Ian or Roland to try with intel 15 on datura ** Steve found and fixed some issues in compiler test
* svn checkouts out of private repositories requiring login: ask Bruno for patch, we initially introduced non-interactive flag to cope with svn asking permission to accept new ssl certificates and seeming to stall since the user did not see the prompt
* OpenBLAS as replacement for LAPACK and BLAS ** desire to build OpenBLAS rather than use a system installed reference LAPACK which is very slow ** difficult to detect exactly what the system installed LAPACK library is since some optimized versions keep parts of the reference library intact ** issue only arises on user workstations/laptops and possibly private clusters where simfactory does not explicitly provide a "good" LAPACK library installation ** balance between compilation speed and execution speed (and reputation of Cactus being slow when using PETSc due to slow LAPACK) ** decision: come up with way to auto-detect in the next 6 months then decide what to do ** decision: keep OpenBLAS in thornlist but keep it commented out for now
Upcoming release: * change group separator in output file names from "::" to "-" after the release * example to solve Poisson equation using CactusPetsc ** works with unigrid only (PUGH and Carpet), no mesh refinement, no multi-patch ** currently has no test case but may not need one given that it itself is an example ** needs documentation ** in test there are NaN values on the outer edges of the residual grid function that should be set to something harmless instead * testing: ** Erik ran tests using simfactory's distribute script ** no major issues so far ** send out call to mailing list for user to send in option lists for cluster they use but that are not in simfactory, in particular European ones (Ian and Roland have access to the RZG machine in Munich but they are Max-Planck machines so not public, have yet to hand in a PRACE allocation request for the XSEDE equivalent)
Yours, Roland