Dec 16 2024

Attds: Carl, Nicole, Evan, Stephen, Cedric, Matthew, Vivek, Gabriel, Joseph

Note-taker

General Topics

• NCCL Backend
  • Carl is trying it out on a workstation
    • Unit tests didn't work immediately, looks like some MPI stuff is still enabled
    • Okay to push directly to Gabriel's branch with minor changes? Yes
• Sandia CI
  • Creating a test is still on Carl's to-do list
• Nicole & Evan: Starting to think about "Persistence" API for Kokkos Comm
  • Channel abstraction or something like that

Round Table

Carl - Try to follow up with Andrey @ ORNL about ArborX Gabriel - CEA working on NCCL CommSpace after the holidays. Discussion with FFT / all-to-all applications (incl. Kokkos-FFT + distributed memory, HeFFT) Vivek - interested in the persistence API, waiting to see a PR