Agenda Notes Monday May 9th 2016 3:00 PM

MPAS-Developer Telecon:

Date: 25 April 2016
Time: 3:00pm MDT

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

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Agenda Topics:

1. Open Pull Requests
2. Issue cleanup
3. Framework modifications:
   • Filter Infrastructure
   • Eliminating the mpas_constants module
   • Registry Validation
   • Pool get_dimension routine
   • Error / debugging streams
4. Optional init for scratch fields
5. Testing infrastructure
   • Anything to talk about?
   • Pass/Fail for timer comparisions
     • How to do them?
     • What should a pass/fail be?

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Notes:

Example timer output:

Comparing timer total time:
             Base: 6.267890
          Compare: 6.899820
   Percent Change: 10.082021%
          Speedup: 0.908414

• Looking into using pnetcdf in netcdf 4 libraries
• Timer comparison conversation:
  • Might be nice to be able to flag performance changes as a failure
  • Might be nice to disable timer comparisons
  • Might be nice to be able to automatically log timer info into a table for plotting as a function of time