[stem-dev] Minutes from the STEM community call on Weds April 15, 2021

["James Kaufman" <jhkauf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

STEM Community Call
on Weds April 15, 2021 at 9AM Pacific Time
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1. Welcome and
introductions. 

2. Updated on
Fixes STEM Build for MacOS Big Sur
   
    see recent bugs below
   
    Migrated STEM to Java 11.0.8
   
    Updated required plugins
   
    Verified maven build (build is now working again)

3. Apache Simplex
algorithm. Rjel will investigate

4. Nelder-Mead
progress logger (possible performance issue)
   
            
5. STEM on Cloud
(STEM 5.0) updates 
   
    
6. New Bugs:
571792 UI (MAP
VIEW) not responding in real time since Observable and Observer are deprecated
in Java 9 and higher  (in Progress). Anup has determined this originates
from a Race Condition. It is observed only on Mac (not windows). Harsha
will reach out to Anup. 

7. Items from
Participants. 
   
    BfR starting a new COVID modeling project
   
    Emergence of new variants


8. Next Call (confirming
the May 20)


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Jamie (IBM Research)
Matthia (BfR)
Harsha (IBM Research)