Teleconference 2024-11-06

Attendees:

OASIS Deliverables

• Address requests for support, improvement, and new features by current and potential applications such as XGC and WarpX as well as other users of ParaView, VisIt, and Ascent.
  • Ascent team solved ray tracing bug in VTK-m 2.2
  • Another render issue popped up. Can be replicated at small scale. Nicole working on it.
  • Cyrus has noted that there appears to be an issue with contouring a surface. He is not getting the lines he expects.
• Strengthen operation of VTK-m on Aurora.
  • Renzo from Intel has tried VTK-m with a new version of the compiler that has some issues fixed. He reports things are working, but we need to follow up to make sure everything is passing now.
• Improve documentation with automatic generation and web deployment.
  • User's guide continues to improve.
• Ensure proper building and running at OLCF, ALCF, and NERSC through Spack.
  • Ken verified that Slack builds work on Perlmutter and Frontier.
  • Silvio connected Ken with Sean Koyama who helped set up the Spack build. It has progressed further but still needs some updates.
  • Ken added SYCL compile option to spack package. This has been accepted by spack.

Viskores / HPSF

The HPSF has granted us some funding to transition our software from VTK-m to Viskores. This funding will be provided to Kitware.

This Viskores TSC had a meeting last week. The minutes are at https://github.com/Viskores/viskores-tsc/wiki/Meeting-2024%E2%80%9010%E2%80%9029. Here is a summary of what was discussed:

A new code of conduct was adopted.

Vicente Bolea has been admitted as a maintainer of the Viskores repo. This will assist with his work of transitioning the software from VTK-m to Viskores

New members have been voted into the TSC. Welcome Silvio Rizzi, Nicole Marsaglia, Gunther Weber, and Jeff Amstutz.

Roundtable

Ascent getting weird ray culling issue.

ANARI working group going to have a virtual hackathon October 21-23. Good opportunity to work though some VTK-m/ANARI integration.

VTK-m is likely going to be a part of the European ANARI Community Project that is forming.