Agenda Notes Monday August 8th 2016 3:00 PM

Date: 8 August 2016
Time: 3:00pm MDT

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Open Pull Requests
Issue cleanup
Framework modifications:
- Filter Infrastructure
- Eliminating the mpas_constants module
- Registry Validation
- Pool get_dimension routine
- Error / debugging streams
- Critical error log files: "regularize" filenames, and add ability to print multiline messages
- Integer overflow in ESMF time interval code
  - See branch https://github.com/mgduda/MPAS/tree/framework/esmf_i8_intervals
Halo Updates Work
- Idea to speed up halo exchanges, thoughts?
Derived Fields Idea
- Thoughts?
Pool Functions
- Any update on this?
- Generic function interfaces
Fortran 2008 Support
- Contiguous discussion
Design Document Discussions
- Flexible Reference Time
- Arbitrary Attributes in Field Definitions
  - Any update on the integer*8 work?
Testing infrastructure
- Anything to talk about?

Would like to regularize the critical error log files, and allow multiline messages
Should have everything in place to get the ESMF time manager working with Integer*8s
- Will submit a PR into cime
- Should merge the MPAS PR after the CIME PR
Would like to "poll" receive messages and unpack as their received instead of "waiting" for the first communication list
- Will look into this
Derived field idea:
- Possibly create derived fields like invAreaCell(:) = 1.0_RKIND / areaCell(:)
- Seems like it might be overkill
- Could also result in complicated logic that doesn't meet everyone's needs
Pool functions:
- Design document is put together
- Worked on cleaning up the design
- There was support for using the generalized interfaces, where a "mold=PTR" argument could be used to specify which interface was needed.
Fortran 2008 Support:
- Would like too get this into framework soon-ish
- Will test out the test program and get feedback by next week
Arbitrary Attributes Design Documents:
- Will revisit design to see what we need to modify for next week

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