Present: Roland, Steve, Alois Peter, Liu, Sam, Zach, Ken, Helvi, Atul, Peter, 
Maria

Chair: Peter
Minutes: Maria

Peter opened the meeting remarking that the agenda for Today is very short and 
asked if anybody wants to talk about things that are not currently on the 
agenda. There were three items added.
1. Maria mentioned failing to compile the development ETK version on OSX, while 
the stable version works just fine. Roland remarked that it might be a link 
problem and suggested compiling with j1, for a more explicit error output.
2. Zach reported new work done on the NRPy LaTeX interpreter, namely the 
Kronecker Delta is implemented now, which is very useful for coding the 
analytic metric.
3. Helvi announced that the Einstein Toolkit tutorial presented by Erik in the 
first week of the semester-long workshop at the ICERM was very well received 
and there is interest in having more tutorials like that, on a regular basis, 
while the workshop is running.

Peter continued with the first urgent item on the agenda, namely the SPEC 
benchmark contribution. Steve admits that he did not do anything about it and 
will look into it, to see when the items are due. Helvi asked for 
clarifications on what exactly SPEC benchmark is, and Steve explained that it’s 
an acronym for Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation and there are a 
series of benchmarks to run based on science codes. Cactus ADM standard 
benchmark was given as an example.

The next item on the agenda is the upcoming release planning. Roland emphasized 
that this is a serious issue, there are only two months until the planning 
release and there is not a lot of time, so things need to move along fast to 
get this going. First, everything that needs reviewed should be completed, then 
the release manager needs to be chosen, and he needs to come up with list of 
tasks to be executed. Roland and Steve would try to be released managers, since 
Yosef said no.

Peter went on to the next item, the unanswered questions on the mailing list. 
Atul reported about the issue he is having with restarting simfactory, and the 
help he is getting from Erik. Helvi came up with very good suggestions that 
might fix the problem.

Next item was open tickets, and Roland explained that there are only two big 
issues, related to Blas and OpenMPI, and a third one, related to the reduction 
interface. He and Steve will handle them. As the release date approaches, minor 
tickets and bug fixes will be addressed in the order of importance to the 
release.

Lastly, Peter asked for chair and minutes taker for the next meeting. Helvi 
offered as chair, and Sam was encouraged to take minutes.

The meeting adjourned.
 _______________________
Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics
College of Science, Marshall University,
1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV, 25755
Room S 257, Phone: (304)696-2754


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