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...

Linear Wave Initial Conditions I spent quite awhile this week trying to debug the linear wave initial conditions to get rid of the oscillation to no avail. Since the initialization from the vector...

Committee Meeting In the last two weeks I’ve had my committee meeting and been working on a variety of tasks. My committee meeting went and and per my committee’s suggestion I’ve started the early...