Firedrake meeting 2024 08 21

Date and time 2024-08-21 1600 BST (1500 UTC)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (JB to pick)
2. ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)
3. JB: Move pyop3 and TSFC to firedrake and move FInAT to FIAT
4. ALL: do things with SV's branches
5. DH: Email to Andreas to have 2 (+ others!!!) loopy PRs merged TODO: FIND OUT WHICH PRS THESE ARE
6. DH: Get Firedrake a docker open source account (link here)
7. DH: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
8. DH: Order more Firedrake stickers
9. JB: Enable merge queues (minutes)

Notices

1. Firedrake User Meeting 16-18 September 2024 Firedrake (Registration 25th August/Abstracts 18th August)

Agenda

Present: DH, CW, JB, IM, DD, RK, PB, JHC, KS

Apologies:

GregVernon's PR PR#2116:

real-mode test failed for some reason.

Sophia's PR:

DH: This is not the part of the code that we often touch.

Firedrake US 2025

Friday and Saturday before CSE.

JHC: Docs

JHC: PR#3742. By default, Sphinx doesn't build the docs for "special" methods i.e. dunder methods. This PR adds a line to the documentation configuration so that __call__ methods are documented in the API listing.

DH: Uncontroversial.

DD: MUMPS + Mac updates:

• The PETSc make test runs successfully with MUMPS. However, Firedrake tests are still failing when run in parallel.
• petsc4py also fails in parallel when using MUMPS. So, I believe this is not a problem with Firedrake itself but rather with petsc4py. I will continue to investigate this further.

DD: Wrap up MFE and open new issue in upstream.

JB: Caching update

WIP is in PyOP2 and Firedrake PRs, discussion needed?

JB: Centralise all caching in one place (disk or memory cache). Removed CachedObject.

DH: In principle this looks right.

Irksome

DH: Is it nice to have progress bar?

Merge PRs

Note that PRs put in this section should either be trivial or already have been reviewed. Discussion-worthy PRs should be separate agenda items.

KS: part1: Minor changes required.

DD: FWI demo:

Date of next meeting

No meeting next week! 1600 BST (1500 UTC) 2024-09-04