Agenda Notes Monday March 10th 2014 3:00 PM

MPAS-Developer Telecon:

Date: 10 March 2014
Time: 3:00pm MST

Call-in number: 1-866-740-1260
Access Code: 4978161

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Notes:

• Var pools/collections
  • Trying to finish the design document for this project
  • Might need to handle dimensions differently
    • Dimensions might be in their own collection at the same level as var_structs rather than one level deeper within each var_struct
  • Will need to design this project to handle vars, dimensions, and config options
• History attributes
  • A pull request exists that updates some of the history attributes for MPAS output/restart files.
  • git_version now gives a descriptive string for the version of the code from git.
  • parent_id now gives a family tree of meshes that came before the current one.
  • mesh_id gives a random 10 character string to use as an identifier.
  • historty attribute now uses c style new line characters like NCO tools to list commands in the files history.
• Dependencies for building a core with different build types
  • Need to make all targets explicitly call make clean prior to building object files to prevent clean from occuring after the build.
• Work is mostly complete on front end tools:
  • These tools read in the following informaton

  xCell
  yCell
  zCell
  xVertex
  yVertex
  zVertex
  cellsOnVertex
  meshDensity
  

  and create a full valid MPAS mesh.
  • They also allow cells to be removed from an MPAS mesh.
  • They use the mesh_id, history, and parent_id attributes the same way the MPAS framework does, so each can be tracked from mesh creation through analysis of output from a specific core.
  • Need to test with planar periodic variable resolution meshes, and have some more review.