Agenda Notes Monday December 12th 2016 11:00 AM

MPAS-Developer Telecon:

Date: 12 December 2016
Time: 11:00 MST / 19:00 CET

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

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Agenda Topics:

1. Framework modifications:
   • Open framework PRs
2. Design Document Discussions
   • Arbitrary Attributes in Field Definitions
3. Timekeeping issue affecting ACME runs starting in year 1850 has been narrowed down to mpas_calibrate_alarms routine
   • How to fix this?
4. PIO performance issues with forcing
   • https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS/issues/1156
5. Proposal for directory structure of test case infrastructure:
   • see https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS/pull/1160
   • renames: test_cases/ocean -> testing_and_setup/compass
   • status: Mark needs to do a test-merge into ocean/develop, make sure directory names copy over.
6. 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
   • Exploring cmake build system
7. News/updates:
   • We're still fixing a couple of remaining issues in MPAS-Atmosphere for the v5.0 release.

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Notes:

Nobody called-in, so we'll try again next week.