May 25, 2023 by GeoCAT

GeoCAT and Project Raijin at the ESDS Unstructured Grids Collaborative Work

“Working With Unstructured Grids” was the topic of the first Collaborative Work Time event of NCAR’s Earth Systems Data Science Initiative (ESDS) on April 17, 2023.

GeoCAT, being part of ESDS and leading the software development efforts for Project Raijin, helped organize and facilitate the event, thanks to great dedication from the GeoCAT team members (namely Anissa Zacharias, Katelyn FitzGerald, Orhan Eroglu, Philip Chmielowiec). Furthermore, our UXarray development partners, i.e. The Department of Energy’s SEATS Project members Paul Ulrich (University of California, Davis) and Rajeev Jain (Argonne National Laboratory), joined us with this facilitation.

Participants were asked to self-organize into subgroups for either their own work idea or another topic of interest. Raijin and UXarray members facilitated at least three of those subgroups, two being solely on UXarray. This event was a success, giving us the opportunity to discuss use-cases, obtain valuable community feedback on UXarray, and even code together with our users to resolve issues that were uncovered during the event. The overall takeaway was that the event was very fruitful and that similar events needed to be held in the future.

For further details about the event, please have a look at the ESDS recap post .