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