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Dave Pugmire, Gary Liu, Scott Klasky (ORNL)

VisIt and ADIOS

• VisIt: Large data parallel visualization tool
  • Rich set of visualization and analysis plots and operations
  • Plug-in API allows for easy extension
• ADIOS: adaptable I/O framework
  • Provides portable, fast, scalable, easy-to-use, metadata rich output with a simple API
  • Visualization Schema provides an xml based method for attribute generation

Result/Impact

• ADIOS Vis Schema bridges the gap between simulation and visualization tools
• Minimize impact of application changes to visualization tools
• Support for uniform, rectilinear, curvilinear and unstructured grids
• VisIt data reader for ADIOS Visualization schema to be released in VisIt 2.7.1

Visualizations