ET hackathon

Hybrid hackathon 2022-06-15

participants: Roland H., (please add yourself)

When

June 15th, 2022 9am PDT till end of day as part of North American Einstein Toolkit School 2022

Where

Join in person: North American Einstein Toolkit School 2022, Engineering & Physics Building, 691 Ash Street, room 309

Join via Zoom link

You will need to use a Zoom account, there will be a waiting room.

Mentors

• Roland Haas

List of topics

Most can be found using a search query

Please claim the ones you like in the respective tickets.

• #2600: `CCTK_CENTERING_GF` is applied to grid scalars
• #2587: update list of ET related lectures
• WVUThorns use CCTK_GFINDEX4D when they should be using CCTK_VECTGFINDEX3D
• GetComponents assumes that default branch name is "master"
• #2254: let Cactus thorns register citation requests at runtime
• some predefined schedule bins missing from documentation
• Flang error in Cactus/src/util/PointerTo.F90
• ExternalLibraries/libjpeg thorn adds problematic system library path to Cactus
• #2525: ET website "capabilities" page only lists McLachlan but not lean_public or Baikal
• #2520: update gauge settings in TOV example to be more typical
• #2519: enable presync in gallery parfiles
• #2500: document out_vars string options for IO thorns provided by IOUtil
• #2481: documentation page on ET site points to outdated tutorial
• #2479: Cactus does not check that implementation whose parameters are SHARED are active
• #2254: let Cactus thorns register citation requests at runtime
• (claimed – Roland Haas) #2364: avoid opening and closing HDF5 files multiple times during output
• #2052: piraha assumes that assert(false) always aborts
• #1626: CarpetIOASCCI transfers too much data for output
• #1568: Reduce overhead of Formaline
• #1437: Missing option for deterministic noise in CactusNumerical/Noise
• #1287: Allow setting parameters at build time
• (claimed - Peter Diener) #963: Improve McLachlan accuracy

Online hackathon 2022-02-02

participants: Roland H., Steve B., Bill G., Leo Werneck (please add yourself)

When

February 2nd, 2022 11am CST to end of day

Where

Join via Zoom: Zoom link.

You will need to use a Zoom account, there will be a waiting room

Mentors

• Steve R. Brandt
• Peter Diener
• Roland Haas
• Erik Schnetter
• Leo Werneck
• TBD

List of topics

Most can be found using a search query

Please claim the ones you like in the respective tickets.

• (done -- Steve) #2070: shallow checkouts do not work with branches
• (done – Erik Schnetter) #2364: avoid opening and closing HDF5 files multiple times during output
• #2587: update list of ET related lectures
• #1437: Missing option for deterministic noise in CactusNumerical/Noise
• (done? -- steve) #2332: piraha does not allow variable expansion in ActiveThorns
• #2529: Flang error in Cactus/src/util/PointerTo.F90
• #2541: some predefined schedule bins missing from documentation
• #2518: retire BlueGene/Q support in thorn vectors
• Bill Gabella #2531: remove non piraha parser from Flesh
• #2254: let Cactus thorns register citation requests at runtime
• Leo Werneck #2469: None of the thorns in WVUThorns_Diagnostics have documentation