present: Sam Roland Zach Leo
ET_2023_11 release
ongoing NSIMD issue: downloading sleef fails on some clusters proposed solution: patch python code and include sleef file in tarball needs to be done before release
Testing: Roland can also do testing on supermuc, summit, expanse
Gallery examples: Deborah agreed BBH, hasn't started yet scalar wave, poisson equation examples aren't claimed yet; Roland will try to find students to run them
draft release announcement done, needs to be sent to maintainers, contributors
no update for springer book should look for more contributors hope to return to this topic once proposals are submitted and people have more time
only remaining issue with the new bitbucket restriction on the number of users is with simfactory (owned by Frank Loffler) Roland will try to call him at his office to talk about this
Unanswered emails: "Spikes" in density for FLRWSolver single-mode simulation seeing spikes in density with GRHydro; doesn't recall seeing this in 2017 ask if an older release version of the ET resolves the issue, since that would narrow the search for the problem Sam will send a response
Tickets for review #2762 PR to fix issue; question about what is the best thing to do given the closeness to the release consensus to accept Steve's change; will be merged in this week
#2763 want to be able to call CarpetX interpolator through standard Cactus Framework handles future-proofs this code against any changes involving the Cactus-CarpetX connective tissue
Other topics larger token limits in chatgpt-4 could fix the issue we had with auto-generating minutes
Next meeting in two weeks (2023-11-30) chair: Steve minute taker: Leo
Samuel Cupp Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Physics University of Idaho