Project Meeting 2020.05.22

Task 1 Project Management (milestone)

Discussed Phase 6 scoping and ranking here
- Discussed organizing plan around versions and the need to really build a solid version 1
- We want our first users to have a pain free experience
- Group design tasks into one with a focus on version 2 and to reduce level of effort
- Design tasks will include delivery of a scope/cost
- Share Joel's updates to Bill's feature write-up
- Add addressing GitHub issues such as multiple input skims to maintenance and support
- Each agency allocate their funds to tasks by Thursday COB
- Plan to review and discuss on next call and then RSG draft scope after that
SEMCOG full scale model multiprocessing setup is working
- Runs in about 2.5 hours with 16 processors
- Issue was a core Python bug on Windows related to re-entry into large shared memory
- Also added caching of skims for quick re-reading for model development
- Important for the consortium to have unallocated resources for unanticipated issues
Discussed PopulationSim PR
- I will comment on the PR for the team to review
- Team will use GitHub for discussion so contributors can more easily participate
Discussed ARC sub model naming suggestion
- Will keep issue open for now
- ARC starting up their activitysim implementation project later this summer and plan to compare the results to the existing model

Mostly cleaned-up implementation, including some small issues in expressions based on SEMCOG project feedback
Working on example distribution system for including a more comprehensive set of examples with activitysim. This is needed for estimation mode since we can't distribute a mini example and get reasonable estimation results. Asim will add a command-line option to download various example sets, including the full data, into a user-specified directory that is fully configured and runnable out of the box.
Plan to update notebook with complete start to finish example