Agenda Notes Monday January 25th 2016 3:00 PM

MPAS-Developer Telecon:

Date: 11 January 2016
Time: 3:00pm MST

Call-in number: 1-866-740-1260
Access Code: 4978161

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Agenda Topics:

1. Open Pull Requests
2. Framework modifications:
   • Filter Infrastructure
   • Aggregated Halo Exchanges
   • Eliminating the mpas_constants module
   • PIO2
   • Field attributes
   • Registry Validation
3. PIO2
   • PIO2 Issues have been resolved in the master branch
4. Aggregated Halo Exchanges
   • Branch
   • Need to figure out how to fix the atmosphere cores to submit a PR
     • Might try to convert init_atmosphere and atmosphere to use scratch fields instead of custom fields
5. Pool get_dimension routine
   • Dereference pointer within routine?
   • Maybe add a "set_dimension" routine, to modify the value of a dimension?
6. Testing infrastructure
   • Anything to talk about?

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Notes:

• Yes on get_dimension, and use separate interfaces to encourage people to know they are getting a pointer or a value.
  • Add a routine to set a value
  • Might want to look into adding function interfaces at some point in the future