Telecon: 2024 07 09

2024/7/9 Meeting

Updates

Since 0.9.3:

• Mixed element meshes
• Bug fix in Uniform Grid

In progress:

• Nicole: MIR is done but need to find why zero-copy is failing in VTK-m
• Nicole: Auto Slice bug similar to Uniform Grid
• Nicole: Working on Ascent + WarpX on Lassen then Ascent + WarpX + Anari
• Cyrus: Working on VTK-m patch for Frontier rendering bugs

Discussion

• Mark Bolstad reached out about an interlab LDRD: Fundamental AI for Science, Energy Security, Radiographic Systems, and Advanced Manufacturing. The main area that might be of interest is the “Fundamental AI for Science”. The area that I want to tackle is “trustworthiness”, applying visualization to understand what is happening inside the black box.
• Nicole attended CEA/NNSA annual meeting.
  • This year's goals:
    • Enable Anari rendering with Ascent (Q2 CY25)
    • Evaluate production quality visualizations with Ascent & Catalyst (Q2 CY25)
    • AI/ML for improving in situ usage (Q2 CY25)
      • Current idea: using LLM to generate input scripts
  • Other takeaways:
    • More VR/AR from everyone; we are not currently doing much of this at LLNL
    • AR/VR Goals (all LANL, SNL, or CEA):
      • Investigate new hardware and capabilities for exploring scientific datasets (Q2 CY25)
      • Evaluate collaborative exploration of Scientific Data between remote labs using XR technologies (Q2 CY25)
      • Share experiences using alternative technologies for scientific data understanding (Q2 CY25)