Telecon: 2023 03 14

• Note: Cyrus is planning on a Conduit release this week so Brian R can use Brad's new TopoMetadata

• Updates (Since last meeting)

  • Brad: TopoMetadata changes are in
  • Cyrus: Added bug fix with Blueprint I/O Batons #1081 (important for ascent use case on Frontier)
  • Cyrus: Improved string diff #1086
  • Cyrus: Discussed Conduit vendoring and name mangling startegy with Kitware.
  • Justin: Making progress on Silo / Overlink Support
  • Arlie: Working on O2MIndex
  • Cyrus: Solved HDF5 mystery for Danny Taller (One version of HDF5 was missing zlib)

• Discussion:

  • #723 seems done, can we close?
  • Explore ZFP (or even ZLIB) Compression in HDF5 for ML Ensemble Data (Floating Point Images / Regular Grids)
  • https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/941
  • JSON/YAML Schema format that includes pointers
    • Would enable duplicating a node using external semantics via a string interface.