Considerations for New Development

[rafmudaf]

Target user is ExaWind

• NaluWind
• AMRWind

Performance portability

All code should be performance portable from the start rather than retrofitting.
No need for MPI parallelization since the size of the individual instances should be relatively small. With a device target, there's not much need to split the domain.
Test every combination of hardware and software libraries within the automated system. More robust nightly testing should be included.
Constructing the code in the kernel sense. Even if it doesn't perform well on the GPU, its worth using the GPU model for future considerations.

Maintain our own Spack package.