0) Meeting Format

• Separating Science from Code?
  • Have a science meeting that is separate from 'code' meeting
  • No mention of code or 'code issue' etc… at Science meeting
  • Create tickets for 'problems' for code meetings and we can discuss tickets then
  • External users should use ticketing system as well

• Need "czars" in charge of different group activities
  • Documentation
    • Make sure documentation is complete and up to date with code
    • Delegate documentation tasks to appropriate folks
  • Code development
    • Keeps track of ongoing development projects and coordinates integration
    • Tracks progress of next release etc…
  • Grants/Proposals (Adam)
    • Keep track of Teragrid proposal deadlines etc…
    • Keep track of Funding proposal deadlines etc…
    • Monitor teragrid resource usage
  • Local Resource czar
    • Oversee local compute resources
    • Coordinate users resource plans for each project
    • Each person should submit a resource plan for each project.
  • Scientific Meetings
    • Watch out for scientific meetings and application deadlines
  • Testing
    • Ensuring that regular testing is done
    • Coordinate with the development czar to oversee the development of new testing modules to test new development
  • Debugging
    • Monitor help tickets and assigning and overseeing the resolution of the tickets
  • Outreach
    • Anticipate and oversee new outreach projects
  • New Users
    • Keeping track of external users and their progress with the code.
    • Periodically reach out to external users
    • Find new avenues to increase visibility of AstroBEAR within astro community
    • Oversee publication of materials to share at conferences etc… (powerpoint slides, business cards?)
  • In-group Education
    • Organize various internal presentations

• Difficulty
  • 0 = piece of cake
  • 1 = normal workload
  • 2 = I didn't sign up for this…

Name	czar	difficulty	report period (weeks)	team
Documentation	Erica	1	1	*
Code development	Jonathan	2	2	*
Grants/Proposals	Adam	2	4	*
Local Resource czar	Eddie	0	2
External Resources	Baowei	1	2
Scientific Meetings	Shule	0	4
Testing	Eddie	2	2	*
Debugging	Baowei	2	1	*
Outreach	Erica	0	4
New Users	Baowei	1	4
In-group Education	Zhuo	0	1	*

1) Science:

1. What subjects/projects are we taking on this year
2. What new capabilities will it require (Erica: subgrid model for feedback?)

Who	Project title	Category	code devel	Collaborators
Martin	Morphologies	Planetary Nebulae	MHD winds	Bruce
Zhuo	Fall back disks	Common Envelope	Radiation Driving
Zhuo	Accretion disks in stars	Common Envelope	Accretion BC
Zhuo	Tidally Disrupted Disks	Common Envelope	Polytrope
Erica	Feedback	Star Formation	Large Scale Extractions / Polytropic EOS / Accretion model / Outflow Subgrid Model / Radiation Source Particles	Fabian & Phil
Shule	Triggered SF	Star Formation	-
Erica	Colliding Flows	Star Formation	-	Fabian
Eddie	3D Jets	Jets	NEQ cooling verification / Improved protection / AMR boundaries / diagnostics / Jet object	Pat
Eddie	ZCooling paper	Radiative Shocks	NEQ cooling verification	Pat
Martin	AGN jets	Jets	Update problem module to current version of code	Eric
Martin	Magnetic Tower	Jets	-	Eric
Eddie	Mach Stem	Lab Astro	-	Pat
Eddie	Multi-Ball	Lab Astro	-	Pat
Shule	Magnetized Clumps	Lab Astro	Radiation Pressure BC	Hedla folks
	Hot Jupiter Atmos	Planets	Testing and Verification	Ian

2) Code Development

• AstroBEAR 3.0
  • Things to do
    • Target date → 8/1
      • Central tested 3.0 repo
      • Create tickets and milestone…
      • Assign tasks
      • Develop
      • Test
      • Document
  • Features
    • Legend:
      • 0 - little effort
      • 1 - some effort
      • 2 - significant effort
    • 0 - JC - Radiation
    • 1 - SL - Implicit Heat Conduction
    • 2 - EK/EH - Spherical 'geometry' (source terms etc…) and Self-gravity
    • 2 - SL - Subcycled explicit resitivity/viscosity
    • 2 - JC - Time derivs instaed of extended ghost zones
    • 0 - EH - ZCooling
    • 0 - JC - New EOS stuff - tabulated EOS?
    • 2 - JC/BL - Hybrid mode (openmp/mpi)
    • 2 - ?? - configure script that supports no extra libraries
    • 0 - JC/EH - New refinement algos
    • 0 - JC- Buffering
    • 1 - JC/EH/BL - Improved diagnostics and protections
    • 0 - SL - Krumholz merging of particles
    • 1 - JC - Polytropes
    • 0 - JC - Arbitrary Self-gravitating density profiles
    • 0 - Ivan/Marvin/Dan Updates to disk object
    • 0 - EH - Emission routines
    • 0 - EH - Cylindrical Projections
    • 2 - EK - 2.5 D momentum conserving with self gravity
• possible features
  • 3 - Marvin - Shearing Box
  • 3 - Post newtonian corrections

3) New Users/Support

• What's are niche? competitive advantage?
  • Usability
  • GUI?
  • Good scaling
  • Feature rich?
  • Planetary atmospheres
• Who do we have
  • Mark Morris
  • Bruce Ballick
  • Pat and company
  • Josh (Clemson)
  • Michigan (Christine) ?
  • Christina
  • Ian
• Who do we want
  • LLE
  • Imperial College
  • Planetary Nebulists (Lars Hunger - Noam Soker)
  • Planetary Atmospherists (Zugler - Penn state, Eric Agol)
  • Michigan
  • Non-scientists
  • Farrukh
  • RIT - Need post newtonian corrections
• How do we support them
  • access to ticketing system?
  • provide a forum for extended users that we can occasionally browse and provide advice/helpful tips?
  • mercurial server for pulling/pushing without ssh access.

4) Documentation

• Moving to AB 3.0
  • Improved documentation on bluestreak and other pages
  • shortened intro material
  • improved overall structure of wiki?, updating our emailing/google groups lists)

5) Computing Resources/Storage

• What do we have, what do we need

System	Procs	Memory	Storage	Used	Free	Notes ?
Local
bamboo	16 @ 2.4 GHz	24 Gb	13 Tb	9.0 Tb	2.9 Tb	Erica
grass	8 @ 2.5 Ghz	16 Gb	5.5 Tb	3.4 Tb	1.8 Tb	Eddie
alfalfa	16 @ 2.4 Ghz	24 Gb	5.3 Tb	4.9 Tb	.13 Tb	in PAS
clover	2 @ 2.2 Ghz	16 Gb	11 Tb	9.8 Tb	.45 Tb	in 476
botwin	4 @ 2.6 Ghz	4 Gb	.89 Tb	.77 Tb	.07 Tb	hosting wiki/repos
clover-2	32 @ 2.6 Ghz	64 Gb
—-	—-	—-	—-	—-	—-	—-
Remote
afrank nodes	32 @ 2.27 Ghz	13 Gb
afrank nodes	32 @ 2.33 Ghz	9 Gb
bluehive			.2 Tb/1 Tb
bluestreak			1 Tb/user
bluehive II
Teragrid

• Things to do?
  • Decide about a Local visualization server
  • New raid array - or do we outsource?
  • spec out new workstations (ie clover 2)

7) Grants

• what do need to go after?
  • NSF -
  • DOE - HEDP program (lab astro)
  • Hubble Theory Grants
  • Computational grants?
• XSEDE proposals

Name	PI	Renewal Date	Researchers
Planetary Nebulae	Martin	January 15th 2015	Martin?
Colliding Flows	Adam	April 15th 2014	Erica

8) Meetings

1. Finding them/deciding which to attend

9) Office Space (4 free desks in 375 if Ruka/Erini no longer in group, 2 free computers — clover and the one on Ruka's old desk?)

Action Items:

• Jason to contact XSEDE to find out info about improving application success rate
• Investigate other potential grants that we could apply for (computational - outreach - planets …)
• Fork Repositories
• Setup mercurial server
• Develop guide for planning out simulations