Software Engineering Working Group Meeting 2026

Agenda Track

Thursday, March 5th

Mesa Lab- Damon Room

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Welcome Talk and Hackathon Project Sales Pitches

AI Assistants Discussion

9:30am- Sam Rabin - 

Checking Your Code


9:45am- David Appelhans
10:00am- John Dennis - 

Experience with AI Tools


10:15am- Michael Kavulich
10:30am- Break
11:00am- Aya Lahlou
11:15am- Kate Thayer-Calder - 

AI Assistants in ACOM Software Development


11:20am- General Discussion

Lunch

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AMReX: A Performance Portable Software Framework for Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applications

Weiqun Zhang (Pre-Recorded) 

Comparison of adaptive mesh refinement for numerical weather prediction on the GPU

Daniel Abdi (Remote)

Developing language interoperable atmospheric modeling software: an approach for integrating CAM Fortran parameterizations into E3SM C++ code

Ren Stengel

Retaining Column Physics While Optimizing for GPUs

Pranay Kommera

Break

Porting MOM6 to GPUs using OpenMP and Fortran intrinsics

Marshall Ward

Using test driven development to GPU-enable MOM6 using a C++ productivity framework

John Dennis

GPU Discussion

Friday, March 6th

Mesa Lab- Library

Hack Time

Lunch

Hack Time

Hackathon Project Reports/Conclusion