A third sprintsession will be held on June 4th, 2008, in the meeting room Innovation of the new institute on Delta Technology Deltares including drinks in De V at the end of the day. As is now the tradition the whole day is open to everybody, so please feel free to walk in and out when you feel like it, contribute to each of the topics on the agenda or to raise other items that are not on the agenda yet. It promises to be yet another productive session. McTools is now at revision 1193 (June 3rd, 2008 10am). This means that the threshold of 1000 has been passed! The free dinner goes to Pieter van Geer.
Agenda
The day will start with from 9:30 - 11:00 a number of presentations and demonstrations.
- Introduction (Mark van Koningsveld) Brief introduction of the day
- Postprocessing 3D Delft3D results (Thalweg, Firmijn Zijl and Gerben de Boer) - Firmijn developed a number of tools for the postprocessing of 3D Delft3D resultats and added these to McTools. He will inform you about the functionalities that have now become available to you.
- Online model morphological storm impact (Maarten van Ormondt et al) Maarten will inform you about the current status of the online model for morphological storm impact prediction. The last sprintsession you all helped to make a workplan to set up such an operational model train in preparation of the EU FP7 project Micore. Versie 1.0 of this model train is now in operation. The results can be monitored here. There will be room for discussions on further development of this instrument (e.g. coupling with BeachWizzard).
The rest of the day will be filled up with hands on treatment of a number of topics that were handed to us by you.
- MAD (Model Application Database) At the request of Andries Roelfzema some time has been allocated in the afternoon for the Model Application Database (MAD). E number of people have been approached to come and enter their models into MAD. Fedor Baart is available for assistance. Some effort will be spent investigating how MAD and DelftAlmighty can be coupled (this will enhance visibility and useability).
- Testbanks The need for testbanks, to garantuee the quality of certain often used or important routines, surfaces regularly during major development efforts. This way regular testing of important routines during development efforts, to assess whether an improvement here did not cause any other problems there, becomes possible. During the previous Sprintsession the Team City Buildserver was addressed briefly in the activities surrounding MorphAn. Since then a number of routines was set up to facilitate testing in a transparant and uniform way. One of the items addressed will be how the currently developed tests can be run on the Buildserver. The discussion is wide open to involve other initiatiatives (e.g. XBeach)
- Use of DelftAlmighty In previous sprintsessions and lunchmeetings, DelftAlmighty has been demonstrated regularly. This already gave rise to several follow-up discussions regarding the use of DelftAlmighty in projects (some pilot applications where made like the hindcasting of the Myanmar hurricane - zie Deltares website). Bij spontaan gebruik van DelftAlmighty bleken er af en toe nog wat toepassingsdrempels te bestaan. Op deze sprintsessie kan samen met Maarten bediscussieerd worden waar er af en toe nog knelpunten zijn. Die zullen dan zo snel mogelijk weggewerkt worden.
Natuurlijk kunnen ook andere zaken nog op de agenda geplaatst worden. Laat maar weten als jullie nog van de gelegenheid gebruik willen maken om een bepaald probleem of project met een brede groep experts te bediscussieren.
Vriendelijke groet en tot de 4e juni. Even een korte reply met een indicatie aan/afwezig wordt op prijs gesteld. Mocht je zien dat iemand nog niet op de maillijst staat maar waarschijnlijk wel in een van de genoemde onderwerpen geinteresseerd is schroom dan niet die persoon uit te nodigen voor deze dag (gaarne cc naar ons zodat we die persoon de volgende keer op de maillijst kunnen plaatsen).
The meeting starts at 9:30 (sharp - so be on time) with three brief presentations:
- 9:30 - 9:45 Mark van Koningsveld - Introduction
- 9:15 - 9:45 Bart Jan Kelter - setting of rights on and providing access to the subversion repositories
- 9:45 - 10:15 Pieter van Geer & Kees den Heijer - presentation on useful routines that are now in McTools
This time schedule is relatively strickt so that externally interested people will be able to join if they want to. After this the programme becomes flexible (an aspect that was evaluated positively by you last time).
The following items where suggested from the developersgroup:
- addition of Fortran routines to McTools, working with dll's: from Matlab to Fortran and vice versa (Gerben de Boer, Jan Kramer, Fedor Baart)
- discussion on the new duinerosion routines: strong points, status so far, implementation and use in other projects etc. (Kees den Heijer, Pieter van Geer, Ferdinand Diermanse, Mark van Koningsveld, Sander van Rooij)
- general maintenance of McTools (Robin Morelissen, Gerben de Boer, Kees den Heijer, Pieter van Geer, Mark van Koningsveld)
- discussion on upcoming coastal projects in the framework of Sandmotor and Weak link issues (PieterKoen Tonnon, Jan Mulder, Ap van Dongeren, Jaap van Thiel de Vries, Dano Roelvink, Mark van Koningsveld)
- discussion on the setup of an operational storm impact model for DC and MICORE (Deepak Vatvani, Mark van Koningsveld, Ap van Dongeren, Jaap van Thiel de Vries, Dano Roelvink)
