[QE-developers] Notes for developers' meeting (was Re: Developers' meeting?)

Pietro Delugas pdelugas at sissa.it
Tue Jan 8 09:43:49 CET 2019


Hello everybody

The meeting this morning will start about 10:00, the link for remote 
partecipation is

https://meet.google.com/ehi-xmoc-rbi

we suggest if possible to use chrome browser

regards - Pietro

On 07/01/19 14:44, Pietro Delugas wrote:
>
> Hello everybody
>
> you can join the meeting at this link.
>
> https://meet.google.com/pur-hurt-ibs
>
> Maybe it is better if you use chrome browser
>
>
> On 06/01/19 03:53, Ye Luo wrote:
>> Echo Ari. It will be great if the meeting can be streamed. Otherwise, 
>> having all the slides uploaded is also very useful.
>> The list give by Paolo is not short but we can probably divide and 
>> conquer it.
>> By forming Working groups and having meeting monthly or by weekly, we 
>> can get things nailed in 2019.
>> Best, Ye
>> ===================
>> Ye Luo, Ph.D.
>> Leadership Computing Facility
>> Argonne National Laboratory
>>
>>
>> Ari P Seitsonen <Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi 
>> <mailto:Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi>> 于2019年1月5日周六 下午2:29写道:
>>
>>
>>     Dear Paolo, Nicola, Stefano et co,
>>
>>        Sorry if I have missed it, but will the Developers' Meeting get
>>     broadcasted this time? That is can we follow (possibly
>>     participate) in the
>>     discussion?
>>
>>          Greetings from Paris, buon 2019!,
>>
>>             apsi
>>
>>     -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-
>>        Ari Paavo Seitsonen / Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi
>>     <mailto:Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi> / http://www.iki.fi/~apsi/
>>          Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Département de Chimie, Paris
>>          Mobile (F) : +33 789 37 24 25    (CH) : +41 79 71 90 935
>>
>>
>>     On Sat, 5 Jan 2019, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:
>>
>>     > Hi Nicola, my list (attached) is longer than yours, and it is
>>     not even
>>     > complete (some recent, MaX-2 related stuff is still missing).
>>     >
>>     > Paolo
>>     >
>>     > On 05/01/2019 2:25 PM, Nicola Marzari wrote:
>>     >> On 21/12/2018 18:12, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:
>>     >>> Makes sense to me as well. I have updated the tentative agenda
>>     >>> accordingly (same link as before:
>>     >>>
>>     http://www.quantum-espresso.org/news-events/news/qe-developers-meeting-2019).
>>     >>>
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >> Dear All,
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >> I've collected a few of the desiderata from here and from
>>     other groups,
>>     >> about some of the more pressing needs for QE (maybe something
>>     to keep in
>>     >> mind also for MaX, given that the funding is meant to support
>>     a user
>>     >> community?).
>>     >>
>>     >> As you can see from the list below, they have a lot to do with
>>     using
>>     >> the code(s) in reliable ways, minimizing the external changes
>>     from one
>>     >> release to the other.
>>     >>
>>     >> Also, note that it's very difficult for groups outside Trieste
>>     >> to have a sense of what will/will not happen to the codes, and
>>     this
>>     >> doesn't help the broader developer community (gitlab has
>>     improved things
>>     >> a lot, but there is still the sense that changes and
>>     developments aren't
>>     >> coming from bottom-up requests, or even a broader discussion -
>>     having
>>     >> regular meetings of the QEF foundation, or pre-planned developers'
>>     >> meetings where people can connect in remore, or public
>>     hackatons on
>>     >> certain goals, would all help - especially if adveertised/planned
>>     >> early).
>>     >>
>>     >> Here is the list:
>>     >>
>>     >> -----
>>     >> 1) XML output - it would be great to have some public
>>     reference document
>>     >> or roadmap (e.g. on gitlab) that could summarize
>>     >>
>>     >>   - current status of XML output, open issues, and which will be
>>     >>     addressed in the following release
>>     >>
>>     >>   - which PP tools do/do not support the new XML
>>     >>
>>     >> 2) roadmap for pw and for other codes: what are the planned
>>     >> developments, especially for what concerns the input and output
>>     >> (this is e.g. essential for us, to make sure we do not lose
>>     >> functionality of all the workflows developed)
>>     >>
>>     >> 3) hdf5 file format (with documented schema): what is the status?
>>     >> it would be great to have it for all binary data, in
>>     particular for
>>     >> wavefunctions, density and potential, encoding all auxiliary
>>     data needed
>>     >> for interoperability and reproducibility (e.g. g-vector
>>     ordering, cell
>>     >> vectors, etc..).
>>     >>
>>     >> 4) k-point generation (and symmetries): standardize
>>     generation, for
>>     >> example by adopting spglib, which is increasingly becoming a
>>     de facto
>>     >> standard and has wide functionality.
>>     >>
>>     >> 5) pseudopotentials (less of an issue): which format to use
>>     upf, json,
>>     >> xml ? upf is a poor approximation of xml.
>>     >> -----
>>     >>
>>     >> Thanks a lot,
>>     >>
>>     >>                  nicola
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     >> Prof Nicola Marzari, Chair of Theory and Simulation of
>>     Materials, EPFL
>>     >> Director, National Centre for Competence in Research NCCR
>>     MARVEL, EPFL
>>     >> http://theossrv1.epfl.ch/Main/Contact
>>     http://nccr-marvel.ch/en/project
>>     >
>>     > --
>>     > Paolo Giannozzi, Dip. Scienze Matematiche Informatiche e Fisiche,
>>     > Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy
>>     > Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
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