Date: 2/27/2020 Chair: Ian Minutes: Roland/Steve Present: Roland, Steven, Peter, Liu, Ian, Bill, Zach, Maria, Yosef
updates on codes: * Roland reminded reviewees to have their codes included in master * had a discussion about whether it is worthwhile to delay releases if codes are not ready * differing opinions on how much to strive for a 6 month release cycle * requirement to go into master at this point is that including it must not fail * presync: Steve should be able to get into master until Mar 1st * delay self-force code: likely delay until next release * simfactory python3: all clusters still offer python2, is default on most of them. May not want to do the hard switch. For simfactory3 the "sim" tool is python2 and has a rudimentary parser of the mdb and then looks for python3 (see https://bitbucket.org/ianhinder/simfactory3/src/master/runpython). Current python3 port of simfactory may be a bit more unstable due to python3's changed string handling. Solution is to check that the machine has locale set properly. Likely delay by one release.
timeline of ET release * https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Release_Details#Schedule_for_ET_202... * timeline is not objected by anyone on the call, including March 1 cutoff for getting things into master * links on agenda wiki page: https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Meeting_agenda are for ease use * Roland will not automatically approve tickets without review between now and the release.
websites related to ET: * cactuscode.org: DNS entry needs to be updated, Ian and Steve are in contact with LSU support * no progress yet in conversion of cactuscode.org content to markdown / away from PHP
SPEC CPU v8 benchmark * https://www.spec.org/cpuv8 * https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/Docs/benchmarks/507.cactuBSSN_r.html * Cactus (ML_BSSN) is in SPEC2017 and should be updated * would want current version to be included * Jian Tao has started the process, Erik has weighed in pointing out the newer version of ML_BSSN * need a volunteer to work on including it, tentative agreement by Steve * would like to get previous submission
Unanswered questions: * Roland will add some (crude) blacklisting facility to remember answered questions * Steve handled Bilal's hello world * Issue of compilation of ETK on Ubuntu 18.04 (Federico Cipolletta): was resolved in private conversation.