Agenda Notes Monday November 18th 2013 3:00 PM

MPAS-Developer Telecon:

Date: Monday November 18th
Time: 3:00 PM

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

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Agenda Topics:

1. The current major release (how did it go, etc.)
2. Core summaries: Status, Needs and Outlooks
3. The framework development priorities:

• Run-time I/O (Run-time configurable streams, and multiple streams)
• Write single-precision output regardless of whether model is run in single- or double-precision
• Generic time averaging (Might be coupled with Run-time I/O, as there is a large amount of overlap in the issues related to this)
• Arbitrary moment computations (variance, etc..., again could be coupled with Run-time I/O)
• Ability to define var_structs, namelists, etc. in multiple pieces in the registry
• I/O Libraries (The ability to run with just NetCDF for example)
• Multiple cores (The ability to build/run with multiple cores, though they aren't exactly "coupled")
• OpenMP directives in the shared framework/operators

1. Other

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Notes:

1. The current major release (how did it go, etc.)

• General emails related to release?
• List current release on website.

1. Core summaries: Status, Needs and Outlooks

• Atmosphere:
  • Next release: ~May-June 2014 (New Physics Suite)
• Land Ice:
  • Next release: ~6-12 Months
• Ocean:
  • v2.0 can be built/run as part of CESM.
  • v2.0 lacks CVMix and GM (Important physics parameterizations).
  • Next release: Depends when the OMWG wants these parameterizations.

1. The framework development priorities:

• Ability to define var_structs, namelists, etc. in multiple pieces in the registry
  • Works, with minor modifications to src/Makefile. See: https://github.com/douglasjacobsen/MPAS/tree/ocean/reg_testing
  • Most important for ATM
• Multiple cores (The ability to build/run with multiple cores, though they aren't exactly "coupled")
  • Very difficult
  • Requires scoping
  • Need ~1 year
• Run-time I/O (Run-time configurable streams, and multiple streams)
  • Most important for OCN
  • Most important for LI
  • Most important for CICE
• Generic time averaging (Might be coupled with Run-time I/O, as there is a large amount of overlap in the issues related to this)
  • Design document written. Need to iterate
• Arbitrary moment computations (variance, etc..., again could be coupled with Run-time I/O)
  • Design document written. Need to iterate
• OpenMP directives in the shared framework/operators
  • OCN would like to have prior to next release
• Write single-precision output regardless of whether model is run in single- or double-precision
  • Could be easy.
• I/O Libraries (The ability to run with just NetCDF for example)
• Templated var arrays
  • Design document written. Need to iterate on it
• Scratch structs
  • Mostly done

1. Other

Next broad MPAS-Dev meeting. Dec. 16th