NIMROD TEAM MEETING
                   8 AM - 2 PM, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1996
               CENTURY ROOM, MEZZANINE LEVEL, ADAM'S MARK HOTEL
                             DENVER, COLORADO

                                  MINUTES



1. Review of APS presentations:                     Person Responsible

        1P21: The NIMROD Code                              Dalton

        1P22: The Physical Model of the NIMROD Code        Carl

        1P23: Spatial Discretization in NIMROD             Alan G.
              (Will time discretization also be here?)

        1P24: Parallelization of the NIMROD Code           Alice

        1P25: NIMROD: A Customer Focussed, Team Driven     Dalton
              Approach to Fusion Code Development

        Please be prepared to review your presentation.

2. Status of NIMROD Demonstration                           Alan G.

THE MAJORITY OF THE TEAM MEETING WAS SPENT IN REVIEWING THE POSTER
PRESENTATIONS AND PREPARING THE GUI DEMONSTRATION.  ALL OF THIS WENT
EXTREMELY WELL AT THE MEETING.

3. Post-APS planning                                           All

        - Code Development

SPECTRAL POLLUTION: ALAN G, SPECULATED THAT INPLICIT TIME DISCRETIZATION
WILL STABILIZE THE EXTRA MODE.

NEEDS:

   RESISTIVITY

   BOUNDARY CONDITIONS (THIS IS ESSENTIAL)

   NONLINEAR:

        * MULTIPLE FOURIER MODES

        * MODE COUPLING

        * PRE-CONDITIONING

   SETTLE EQUATION FORMULATION AND FINITE ELEMENT ISSUES

   CENTRAL GRID BLOCK

   WARM PLASMA

   PRE-PROCESSOR

   ADVECTION

   EDGE ISSUES (UNDER BC'S ??)

   NEOCLASSICAL ISSUES

RANKING:

   1. BOUNDARY CONDITIONS (MIKE P. CARL, RICK)

   2. SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION (ALAN G.)

   3. POLAR BLOCK (DAN, ALAN G., OLIVIER TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT XTOR)

        - Code Validation

1. SIMPLE WAVES (RICK, DALTON)

2. COMPLICATED WAVES (COMPARE WITH JAUN)

3. KINK MODES (ALAN T., GATO)

        - GUI Development

???

        - Graphics Development

NEED TO DO 3-D VISUALIZATION WITH DX:

    MAKE DX FASTER

    XDRAW DEVELOPMENT (POPOVA?)

        - Integration

CVS - WE NEED SOME KIND OF LIBRARIAN (RICK?)

NETCDF - ALAN G,. TO GET NETCDF OUT OF CODE; WILL REMOVE ALL REFERENCES TO
NETCDF.  ALSO, THE STANDARDS DOCUMENT WILL BE UPDATED.

        - Computer resources

CAN NIMROD BE BETA-TESTERS ON THE NERSC T3E?  PITTSBURGH SCC T3E?

4. Funding Issues                                              Curt

        - Fusion/theory budget

MIKE P. AND MIKE H. GOT THEORY FUNDING!!

        - Status of priorities from Germantown meeting

???

        - Status of Keldysh funding/collaboration

$30K FOR KELDYSH

        - Continued MICS participation

DALTON WROTE LETTER TO HITCHCOCK ASKING FOR CONTINUED SNL PARTICIPATION.

        - DOE 2000??

???

5. The "INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on NONLINEAR MHD and EXTENDED-MHD"

WE'LL BE THERE

6. Any other business

RAN OUT OF TIME

7. Time and date for next

        - teleconference

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1-3 PM EST

        - team meeting

TRY TO COMBINE WITH ERSUG MEETING IN JANUARY AT LBL.  POSSIBLY HOLD MEETING
AT LLNL.  LAKE TAHOE?  ALICE TO CHECK.

8. Adjourn