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

Pietro Delugas pdelugas at sissa.it
Tue Jan 8 13:41:57 CET 2019


we are starting the afternoon session, yu can use the same link as this 
morning

On 08/01/19 09:43, Pietro Delugas wrote:
>
> 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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