UXarray 2023 Roadmap

[erogluorhan]

This discussion can serve as:

1. Announcement of what we are planning to do overall in the 2023 calendar year for UXarray
2. Feedback/input point for the community on our roadmap

UXarray 2023 roadmap:

1. UXarray development

   • Milestone: API redesign to satisfy both the usage requirements & specifications and to comply with the Xarray-extension best practices
     • See the UXarray Redesign Thoughts and Options discussion for detailed information and your inputs.
   • Analysis operators development
     • See the Prioritization of Uxarray analysis operators discussion for detailed information and your inputs.
   • Basic visualization functions development

2. Open development & community engagement

   • Continue Raijin & SEATS collaboration on UXarray development
   • Collaboration with NCAR’s SIMA (System for Integrated Modeling of the Atmosphere)
     • NetCDF datasets in UGRID convention
   • Seek new collaborations

3. Scalability

   • Dask
     • Ensure compatibility & apply best practices
       • Investigate the existing function implementations to check if they were implemented with Dask best practices
       • Ensure it for new implementations
     • Performance analysis
       • Investigate the performance of the existing function implementations with Dask
   • GPU programming (GeoCAT-comp & UXarray)
     • Explore