Telecon: 2023 08 22

• Updates (Since last meeting)
  • Brad has been exercising partitioning and mapback
  • Arlie has been working on helpers that display Conduit Nodes in various debuggers (totalview, etc)
  • Cyrus has been working on ideas for conduit device execution: https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/1151
  • Justin has been working on materials support and matset to_silo improvements
  • Cyrus is working on an uberenv + spack update (enables spack newer than 0.19 and transition to spack environments)

Discussion:

• https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/1151
• New carter interface will take device pointers, how will we handle in conduit cater?
• Arlie asked about C++17 builds, added CI test(which is failing, but it's not a compilation issue)
  • https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/pull/1161

Future:

• Helpers to modify names of mesh bp entries (rename a topology, rename a field)
• Explore ZFP (or even ZLIB) Compression in HDF5 for ML Ensemble Data (Floating Point Images / Regular Grids)
• Discuss: https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/941
• Add JSON/YAML Schema format that includes pointers
  • From Kitware discussion
  • Would enable duplicating a node using external semantics via a string interface.