Date and time 2021-01-20 16:00UTC (16:00GMT)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter.
2. ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)

Agenda

Present:

Apologies:

JB (PF): Performance Bakeoffs

Is there any interest in posting some benchmarks for theses test cases: https://ceed.exascaleproject.org/bps/ Talk last week suggested it had helped improve performance of other codebases.

LM: upcoming excalibur call

Here: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/spf/excalibur-xc-themes-common-text.pdf

Two EPSRC-led calls opening in Feb.

• Coupling (EPSRC led) Applicants to submit proposals that investigate and research coupling technologies that address the complexity of concurrently running multiple applications required to produce unified results for heterogeneous systems.

• Domain Specific Languages (EPSRC led) Various existing and upcoming programming languages are utilised or under development, requiring some standardisation as we move towards Exascale. Proposals to provide solutions that drive efficient practices for Exascale; identify resolutions of barriers for co-design across domain-specific languages or consider interoperability between languages. Applicants should consider how they will integrate and optimise their findings parallel with the scientific code development by the ExCALIBUR Use Cases.

Amounts not yet advertised, but probably ballpark one funded proposal (4+eps postdoc years).

Merge PRs:

AOB

Date of next meeting

2021-02-03 16:00UTC (16:00GMT)