GeoCAT-comp & GeoCAT-f2py 2023 roadmap

[erogluorhan]

This discussion can serve as:

1. Announcement of what we are planning to do overall in the 2023 calendar year for GeoCAT-comp & GeoCAT-f2py, as part of the GeoCAT 2023 roadmap
2. Feedback/input point for the community on our roadmap

GeoCAT-comp & GeoCAT-f2py 2023 roadmap (from GeoCAT 2023 roadmap):

1. Development

   • New functionality
     • Community feature requests
     • Existing backlog items
     • Fortran to Python conversion
   • Improvement, maintenance, and quality of life updates
     • Optimization/benchmarking (SIParCS internship)
     • Support for M1/M2 and Windows platforms
     • Documentation improvements
     • Continue to research and match community packaging standards

2. Open development & community engagement

   • Showcase functionality to community (examples, outreach, cross-posting, talks, etc)

3. Scalability

   • Dask
     • Ensure compatibility & apply best practices (GeoCAT-comp SIParCS internship)
       • Investigate the existing function implementations to check if they were implemented with Dask best practices
       • Ensure it for new implementations
   • Performance analysis
     • Investigate the performance of the existing function implementations with Dask
   • GPU programming
     • Explore

[anissa111]

Iteration 6 Priorities

January 30 - February 26

1. Incoming and currently reported bugs (including M1 support)
2. New functionality
   a. Vertically Integrated Moisture Flux Convergence (VIMFC) #292 - initial development stage
   b. mjo #30 - research stage
   c. Form feature request: additional humid heat metrics #192 - initial development stage