Firedrake meeting 2022 09 14

Date and time 2022-09-14 15:00UTC (16:00BST 22:00AEST)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (KS 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 (ongoing)
5. JB: SIAM CSE23 Minisymposium/minisymposterium

Agenda

Present:

Apologies:

JB: Status of PETSc/petsc4py GC MR

Since rebasing this now has more memory leaks and needs fixing before it will pass tests. Perhaps revisit this next week.

CW: assign performance issues worth fixing?

I recall that DH described assign as equivalent to interpolate in many cases and that potentially assign would be pared back to only work for the cases where it actually makes sense. TK recently found a performance issue in assign that would require a relatively invasive change to fix. Is it worth me spending time on a fix if we're about to change things anyway?

Merge PRs

Date of next meeting

Next meeting: Not next week

1600 UTC 2022-09-21