Firedrake meeting 2022 07 21

Date and time 2022-07-21 12:00UTC (13:00BST 22:00AEST)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (CW to pick).
2. ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)
3. JB: Look into updating the @parallel test marker (ongoing)
4. DH: talk to Jemma about Firedrake 2022
5. JB: SIAM CSE23 Minisymposium/minisymposterium

Minutes

Present: JB, DH, KS, NB, CC, RK

Apologies:

DH: SysGenX + Sustainable software job adverts about to go live

We will start discussing UFL rewrite. Garth is happy for dual space changes to go into UFL on the basis that UFL is being rewritten anyway. James Maddison is less convinced that we have dual right.

DH: Things are moving forward with SIAM CSE

JB organising minisymposium. NB to talk in Devito mini.

DH: PETSc changes

KS: Waiting on Matt

JB: Rebased, trying to get through review process again

KS: PETSc main no longer compatible with Firedrake, needs fix

NB: Object versioning

PyOP2 PR: https://github.com/OP2/PyOP2/pull/579

NB: Outline changes (see PR)

DH: Does this work for mixed? Yes, it's fine.

DH: PRISM has been extended to end of 2023

DH: Rob Kirby Sabbatical

DH: India will start a PhD with Patrick in October

RK: Discussion about the futures of UFL, FInAT, FIAT

DH: Changes in UFL need to be orthogonal to changes in FInAT/FIAT.

Merge PRs

N/A

Date of next meetings

Next meeting: 1200 UTC 2022-07-28