Publications

15 Results

Search results

Jump to search filters

Enabling Catalyst Adoption in SPARC

Proceedings of ISAV 2022: IEEE/ACM International Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization, Held in conjunction with SC 2022: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

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.

More Details
TYPE Conference Presenation YEAR 2022
DOIOSTIScopus

In-situ visualization for the large scale computing initiative milestone

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Mauldin, Jeffrey A.; Otahal, Thomas J.; Agelastos, Anthony M.; Domino, Stefan P.

The Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Large-Scale Computing Initiative (LSCI) milestone required running two parallel simulation codes at scale on the Trinity supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to obtain presentation quality visualization results via in-situ methods. The two simulation codes used were Sandia Parallel Aerosciences Research Code (SPARC) and Nalu, both fluid dynamics codes developed at SNL. The codes were integrated with the ParaView Catalyst in-situ visualization library via the SNL developed Input Output SubSystem (IOSS). The LSCI milestone had a relatively short time-scale for completion of two months. During setup and execution of in-situ visualization for the milestone, there were several challenging issues in the areas of software builds, parallel startup-times, and in the a priori specification of visualizations. This paper will discuss the milestone activities and technical challenges encountered in its completion.

More Details
TYPE Conference Poster YEAR 2019
OSTIScopus
15 Results
15 Results