Firedrake meeting 2024 03 06

Date and time 2024-03-06 1600 GMT (1600 UTC)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (NB to pick)
2. ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)
3. JB: Move pyop3 and FInAT to firedrakeproject
4. ALL: do things with SV's branches
5. DH: Email to Andreas to have 2 (+ others!!!) loopy PRs merged TODO: FIND OUT WHICH PRS THESE ARE
6. DH: Get Firedrake a docker open source account (link here)
7. DH: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
8. DH: Order more Firedrake stickers
9. JB: Enable merge queues (minutes)

Notices

1. Submit abstract for PDESoft 1-3 July 2024, Cambridge, UK PDESoft (Registration early 28th March/late 31st May, Abstracts 17th May)
2. PETSc User Meeting 23-24 May 2024 Cologne, Germany PETSc User Meeting (Registration and Abstracts 11th April)
3. Firedrake User Meeting 16-18 September 2024 Firedrake (Registration/Abstracts TBD)

Agenda

Present: DH, CW, JB, PK, PB, FA, IM, KS

Apologies: DD and NB (at SIAM PP24 - Baltimore)

PETSc meeting in Germany

Everyone whose line manager is David Ham discuss this with David.

PK

Meeting with Nvidia. -- make Firedrake GPU in production.

We need enough resources.

JB and CW: chase whom(?) they have been in touch via email.

JB: Merge queues

I need to update CI to get this to work, leave as an action item for now.

JB: More involved than initially though.

JB: Keepalive workflow is finally working

See https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrakeproject.github.io/commit/f728f6e46f8c40a44e97088ee0e6d1eb30d122b8

JB: This is supposed to just be a bug fix for Consants

But I'm in danger of forgetting what was supposed to be going on https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/3261

Should fix in UFL instead of using the backdoor Constant.

JB: See also linked issues.

Merged.

JB: Do we still want the option of a no VTK install path?

I haven't moved checkpointing into output, but that isn't holding up binary release related things. https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/3324

We are making VTK default.

Merged.

DH: Is having FML in the main namespace actually a good idea?

DH: We should wind back.

Confusion:

identity -- UFL Identity -- FML

JB: Fix this in Gusto.

Merge PRs

Note that PRs put in this section should either be trivial or already have been reviewed. Discussion-worthy PRs should be separate agenda items.

• PB: ASM tests

Approved, but check with Scott.

Date of next meeting

No Firedrake meeting next week (Numerical analysis memorial lecture at Imperial UCL)

1600 GMT (1600 UTC) 2024-03-20