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Enabling Catalyst Adoption in SPARC

Weirs, V.G.; Raybourn, Elaine M.; Milewicz, Reed M.; Muollo, Killian; Mauldin, Jeffrey A.; Otahal, Thomas J.

This paper reports on Catalyst usability and initial adoption by SPARC analysts. The use case approach highlights the analysts' perspective. Impediments to adoption can be due to deficiencies in software capabilities, or analysts may identify mundane inconveniences and barriers that prevent them from fully leveraging Catalyst. With that said, for many analyst tasks Catalyst provides enough relative advantage that they have begun applying it in their production work, and they recognize the potential for it to solve problems they currently struggle with. The findings in this report include specific issues and minor bugs in ParaView Python scripting, which are viewed as having straightforward solutions, as well as a broader adoption analysis.