Agenda Notes Monday December 16th 2013 3:00 PM

MPAS-Developer Telecon:

Date: 16 December 2013
Time: 3:00pm MST

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

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Agenda Topics:

1. Core summaries: Status, Needs and Outlooks
2. MPAS infrastructure workplan through 1 January 2014

• Transition to universal mesh type
• Unique namelists for each core, generated at build time
• Transition 'iro' streams in Registry files to new stream definitions

1. Any other items

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Notes:

• No updates from the ATM core
• OCN is trying to prepare for OMWG in January
• No updates from LI core
• Multiple Cores / Run-time IO Work plan
  • Universal mesh type
    • Define mesh type that is required by framework
    • Cores can augment mesh type
    • Can define a stream attribute that will include fields defined in the mesh type
    • Add "computable" tag to mesh specification fields
  • Distinct namelists
    • Build time generates a default namelist
    • Namelists are now named namelist.core_name
  • New default stream definitions
    • Default streams should be defined through the new "run-time" definition syntax but only be definable at build time.
• Revisit procedure for adding a core to the repository to ensure we're not overloading developers
  • Adding a new core shouldn't change framework, if it does it's rejected.
  • A new core PR should not require a significant review. Only:
    • Developer guidelines
    • Framework changes
    • "Build-ability"
• Conversion of namelist to XML
  • Requirements by external models might determine if we can or cannot do this.
  • Could allow more robust error checking

Next Broad MPAS Developer Telecon: Tuesday January 21st 2013