Telecon: 2025 11 11 - Alpine-DAV/ascent GitHub Wiki

2025/11/11 Meeting

Updates

  • Justin submitted an application to be a mentor for another DSTI summer student with the Ascent team as co-mentors. Their main project would be Conduit device support, with Ascent radiography work as a back-up project if they finish early
  • Nicole & Cyrus vitually participated in the TACC/ANARI Hackathon in October
    • Cyrus was a VisIt mentor
    • Nicole spent time merging the viskores + anari dev branches

Recent Developments:

  • Cyrus: Lots of release prep -- Released 0.9.5
  • Cyrus: Updates to a number of build scripts
    • el cap, polaris, cycl
  • Emily: Added VisIt & Ascent camera mode parity
  • Nicole: Added 1D and 2D contours -- limited by VTKm 2.3, can add more support with Viskores
  • Nicole: Working on fixing an MPI hang for Uniform Grid
    • This is fixed but working on other Uniform Grid/Sampling
      • Fixing default spacing (done)
      • Adding Box to Sampling (almost done)
  • Andres added tracing for multiple energy groups in Rover

Discussion

  • All Ascent Devs have canceled plans to attend SC25
  • Long list of asks from the Marbl team
  • Sampling enhancements to take in an entire topology to sample