Paper Editing This week was entirely me editing papers. Nothing to exciting to report. The paper is coming together well and should be ready in the next 4-6 weeks.

MHD Methods Paper This week I finished the first draft of the MHD methods paper and did some revisions. It’s all coming together and I hope to submit in the next 4-8 weeks. _ctSlope Template and ...

Scaling Tests I finished running the scaling tests this week and ran another set of them to see if the degraded performance at scale was real or a just a fluke. The second run confirmed it to be r...

PEARC23 I attended the PEARC23 conference. It was very interesting and I learned a lot from the various sessions. I got lots of networking done with various groups and was even able to attend the ...

Paper Writing This week I mostly worked on rewriting and formalizing the methods section. It’s still a work in progress but is getting much better. Miscellaneous Lots of small random tasks this ...

PPMC PR After cleaning up a few things based on the review this PR (#300) is merged! Hack Session I enabled a handful of checks, including some of the naming checks, in PR #309. With Helena’s he...

Cholla Profiling I wanted to start profiling Cholla so I got HPCToolkit and Omniperf running with Cholla. HPCToolkit showed which kernels are eating up time and Omniperf should help me optimize th...

Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference I spent most of the week remotely attending PASC. It was really interesting and got me connected to the US-RSE group. Optimize Charact...

Paper Writing This week I finished the shock tube figures, or at least the minimum viable product version of them. After that I spent a day writing up the sections on the linear wave convergence a...

The last two weeks have been a bit of a grab bag of random tasks but let’s start with the biggest one. MHD Code Paper In group meeting we discussed Chamba et al. 2022 and Knapen et al. 2023 which...