Telecon: 2024 08 13

2024/8/13 Meeting

Updates

• ATPESC 2024 Ascent Tutorial (2024/08/04)

  • Cyrus + steering element presented by Andres Sewell

• LLNL RADIUSS Ascent Tutorial (2024/08/20)

  • https://hpcic.llnl.gov/tutorials/2024-hpc-tutorials

Recent Developments:

• Nicole: MIR
• Cyrus: Patch fixing Ray Tracing bug in VTK-m camera-based ray cullling
• Emily: Added view frustrum meshes for cameras to info (for large runs on Frontier)
• Cyrus:build_ascent improvements (silo, caliper, python virtual env)
• Nicole: Working on WrapX issues (their data structures changed impacting how we are wrapping)

Use cases:

• Arbitrary Ray Scalar Rendering (not constrained by Camera)
• X Ray Image Query Use Cases

Discussion

• VTK-m 2.2 was released, we need to update when we have a chance
• VTK-m Rendering may be refactored to be an ANARI interface, with older paths deprecated eventually.