Dev telecon log June 6 2016

Notes from telecon for June 6, 2016

Participants

• Kathleen
• Hank
• Cyrus
• Eric
• Matt
• Mark
• Allen
• Brad

6 Thrust Areas

• Team Outreach and Processes
  • Tutorials, Docs, Git, Testing, etc
  • Fix things in the backlog
  • Document how we do Developer Planning from mixed funding sources
  • (Yearly) VisIt Developer Summit and Hackathon (0.5 day summit + 1.5 day hackathon)
  • SciDAC round 4

• Usability
  • End-user Usability
    • Large Var Counts, Dist-mesh metadata
    • Python Queries and Expressions, make easier to use!

• • Developer Usability
    • Culling unused packages
    • RPC Infrastructure
    • Ghost zone comm Infrastructure
    • Complexity of Plugin Writing (DB, Operators, Plots)
      • Reduce number of steps for creating a plugin
      • Better docs about the process
      • Make it easy to use VTK Filters

• Infrastructure
  • Large TPL Updates
    • Qt5
    • VTK-7
    • Rendering Infrastructure Strategy (EGL, MESA, OSPRay, Optix, SWR, oh my)

• Perf Port
  • Domain-level Threading
  • VTKm
  • (Experimental: AMT systems, RAJA, Kokkos, etc)

• In Situ
  • Extracts are key use case
  • Compositing Scaling
  • Alternate In Situ Paradigms: What are the use cases for Loosely Coupled (ADIOS,etc)
    • Can we have Dave Pugmire give us a good tutorial?
  • UI -- Dashboards (Sanderson's work)
    • (UI for GUI and Python)
  • Experimental:
    • Lower-mem Footprint
    • Batch-oriented Light Weight
    • Simpler Coupling Interfaces

• Workflow
  • Connecting to other tools:
    • Apache Spark
    • Solving the Export vs Save Window
    • Connections for plotting tools (R, Octave, D3)
    • Connections to Blender and Maya, etc
      • fuse all the data into a single mesh (should this be an operator? -- can the merge )
    • Juypter (aka IPython Notebook) [Web interfaces, etc]
    • AVT as a library

Action Items

• Strategy Slides (Cyrus)
• Start Planning Summit + Hackathon (Eric)