[Users] meeting minutes for 2025-05-29

[Roland Haas]

Present: Steve, Deborah, Roland, Keith, Leo, Johnny, Liwei, Maxwell

Einstein Toolkit release
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* Maxwell will send out announcement just after the call
* Steve reminds the release managers to update the docs and release
  process notes
* testsuite runs are only present for Anvil, DB1, Delta, Expanse,
  Frontera
** failures of TOVola on all tested clusters, Leo and Roland will reach
   out to David Boyer
* Steve volunteers to handle the next release, Roland points out that
  Zach also volunteered to handle one release

US Summer School
================

* titles are still missing for many talks, Johnny will reach out to
  speakers
* Steve will present the getting started with the ET tutorial
* 1.5hrs per invited speaker, more if needed for the tutorial
* some speakers still need to verify their proposed slot
* funding situation for travel grants is being sorted out, should
  contact the admin person of site funding travel if have any question
* there is a reduced number of participants compared to initial
  estimates
* for recordings of talks, can either upload to site-local YouTube
  channel then link in ET playlists or use ET channel to upload
  (Roland, Frank, Steve (?) can add members to the ET channel)
* there will not be an organized outing, but Wed afternoon is off for
  visitors to interact on their own or explore Austin

Open tickets
============

* https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2871 "EOS_Omni's
  nuceos code used int to hold hid_t values" is a wrong type, fix is
  known and quick. This should actually make tabulated EOS fail with
  new enough HDF5.

* Steve suggests to add LD_OPENMP_FLAGS to generic.cfg and other option
  lists. This flag is new and introduced to avoid passing CXXFLAGS to
  the linker. Roland says that there should be fallback defaults, but
  they may not trigger if one sets other LD options. Steve does not set
  those, will point Roland to how to reproduce this on tutorial server.

* https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2848
  "Updates to FLRWsolver" is mostly the inclusion ticket for the
  release. Some code that was added shortly before the release to work
  around test failures, but should be cleaned up as pointed out by the
  reviewer (Zach).

Any other topics
================

* Steve was contacted about presenting at a Perl conference in Austin
  July 3/4, looking for interested people
* this would include a paper (CS-like, attached to a conference)
* registration deadline is July 1
* https://www.papercall.io/perlcommunity

Yours,
Roland
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