Cyrus Harrison
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Harinarayan Krishnan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Abstract

VisIt is an open source, turnkey application for scientific data analysis and visualization that runs on a wide variety of platforms from desktops to petascale class supercomputers. VisIt's core software infrastructure is written in C++, however Python plays a vital role in enabling custom workflows. Recent work has extended Python's use in VisIt beyond scripting, enabling custom Python UIs and Python filters for low-level data manipulation. The ultimate goal of this work is to evolve Python into a true peer to our core C++ plugin infrastructure. This paper provides an overview of Python’s role in VisIt with a focus on use cases of scripted rendering, data analysis, and custom application development.

Keywords

visualization, hpc, python

DOI

10.25080/Majora-54c7f2c8-004

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