Telecon: 2026 01 13 - Alpine-DAV/ascent GitHub Wiki

2026/01/13 Meeting

Updates

Recent Developments:

  • Cyrus: Working on MFEM things in VisIt that will eventually need to be added to Ascent
  • Cyrus: Updating HDF5 2.0 & Spack 1.1 in Conduit
  • Cyrus: has utilized github's dependabot to do updates
  • Emily: Merged viskores 1.1 transition into Ascent
  • Emily: Added support for 64bit Ids - needs Nicole's review
  • Nicole: Added Box sampling to Sampling filter - needs review
  • Nicole: Got 2D actions file working for Marbl
    • Attempting to recreate VisIt output for 3D actions file
  • Emily: Working on RZ mesh support
  • Eric: Added tiling high resolution images - Needs review
    • Requires viskores patch
    • Needs spack inclusion and container rebuilds
  • Eric: Fixed the parsing of the y pan in the camera

Discussion

  • Cyrus's AI ideas using self describing schema as input for filters
    • Likes the VisIt MCP json
    • Can build a UI from this
  • Build MFEM with GPU support