Agenda Notes Monday October 31st 2016 11:00 AM

MPAS-Developer Telecon:

Date: 31 October 2016
Time: 11:00am MDT

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

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Agenda Topics:

1. v5.0 release branch status
   • We need a few framework PRs to finish off MPAS-Atmosphere functionality for v5.0
   • A few extra days before creating the release branch are probably necessary from atmosphere view. What about other cores?
2. Framework modifications:
   • Open framework PRs
   • potential PR: a new PR in ACME's MPAS repo wants to remove the if-construct from around this bit of code in dmpar: https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS/blob/develop/src/framework/mpas_dmpar.F#L260-L265 because mpi is initialized within ACME. Confirm this doesn't affect standalone MPAS functionality.
   • Interest in exploring cmake build system
3. Design Document Discussions
   • Arbitrary Attributes in Field Definitions
4. On a related note, discuss places to put 'random' documentation. E.g., https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aURr4UdEm0AMeYlc478yL_46biD19naVp3nCMYgrYLI/edit?usp=sharing; how to run the test case infrastructure on LANL's Wolf machine; how to set up an optimal git environment on a new machine
5. Matt found another bug in the interval division routine that had caused the problem before (the version that was in ACME before fixed it). It's fixed on develop, but maybe we want to add a new test to the test core? Symptom: set a stream's file_interval to 200 years. Files got written at 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 years instead of 200, 400, 600, 800,... (But all the time levels written were correct.)
6. test case infrastructure - the "temporary" location in test_cases/ocean isn't so temporary anymore. Do we want to move it?
7. Perpetual to-do list:
   • Integer overflow in ESMF time interval code
     • See branch https://github.com/mgduda/MPAS/tree/framework/esmf_i8_intervals
   • Fortran 2008 CONTIGUOUS keyword
8. News/updates:
   • MPAS build notes that Doug had created are now in a wiki at https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS/wiki/machine-instructions

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