2025‐09‐09 meeting minutes

Attendees: Stephen, Gabriel, Hugo, Evan, Vivek, Nicole

Carried forward from last time

• Today we are still on Teams, but hope to move to HPSF Zoom soon
  • Cedric will follow up

General Topics

• NCCL backend
  • Basic point-to-point tests
    • Something is not quite right with GTest and macOS instances
  • Try to merge before the end of the month
• Carl may have some money to work on Kokkos Comm next year
  • Finding a couple of use-cases for Kokkos Comm
  • libfabric-backed implementation rather than MPI
  • CExA wants to get Gysella working with Kokkos Comm

Round Table

• Carl
  • will fix: Kokkos Comm macOS CI
• Nicole
  • Tpetra integration
  • Working with Tony to see if a new grad student can join
• Evan
  • no updates
• Stephen
  • no updates
• Gabriel
  • no other update
• Hugo
  • no other update