| [stem-dev] Notes from STEM Call 3/30/2011 |
03/30/2011 Task and Documentation Tracking On call: Jamie, Matt, Stefan, Jan Pieper, Justin, Bryan, Dan, Werner, Judy Welcome Jan Pieper · New STEM team member from IBM STEM Release 1.2.0 · Date: 04/13/2011 · Stefan: Yossi fixed new bug in release candidate (logger stopped working) · Jamie: Admin 3 data for US is for Vermont only; to eliminate confusion · Decision: Will move to a temporary Archive folder until whole US available · Matt: Should we branch at 1.2.0? · Decision: Put on stem-dev for consideration; when all new features for release are in, then branch? · Matt: Resolved issue with time series getting bogged down, UI events queuing up with at end of simulation · Jamie: Stefan ran 10 years simulation for Thailand with two populations in 10 seconds New STEM Committers · Armin, Jan-Frederik, and Dirk (all at BFR in Berlin) elected new committers · Are finishing up Eclipse paperwork Earth Science Data · Have data for 2000-2010 from NOAH @ NASA; developed plugin for 2009 for work @ Almaden · Working on tool for developers; would be useful to document process for developers who might have their own bit maps · Stefan and Jan Pieper: Looking at website where user could download, drop into STEM or a full fledged STEM update site; until update site is available, could offer like downloadable scenarios · Matt: Have right to put up data in public domain; need to confirm w/ Eclipse · Jamie: Have put up derived data once, got permission · Jamie: Need tool that lets user specify a path w/ info about the data; ask NASA how best to access Graph Partitioning · Jamie: Working on this, pre-tiling of the world; can get to 5% balance; need to check communications costs Graphical Editor · Defer until Dirk and Jan-Frederik are on call Student Projects – Bryan & Justin · Working on patch for timestamp, ideas for future release · How to go to EMF model? Jamie: Stefan will do a demo on a desktop share · Posted survey on open source documentation another student is doing on stem-dev; Jamie: has completed Items from Participants Matt: Re-investigating open GL and open CL runtimes approved for distribution w/ Eclipse; issue reopened; will contribute to discussion Werner: Meeting in Bangalore rescheduled for May 6; Jamie will contact IBMers in Delhi, but doubts they will be able to attend, may not be working on STEM now; posted link to Tubola on newsgroup |