ParaView 3 Telecon 01-13-2011

Item	People	Description
1	Moreland, Nathan	Project Randy
2	Greg Weirs	CTH Tracer data
3	Mauldin, Alan	Visit bridge/data files
4	Pebay	Statistics package
5	Mauldin, Weirs	Prism
6	Alan, kitware	ParaView 3.10 Release
7	Mauldin	ParaView roadmap?
8	Moreland	Warning when ProcessRequests modifies itself
9	Moreland	Book omissions and errata
10	Moreland	Stronger Dashboard
11	branchy workflow
12	Geveci	ParaView + ADIOS Test consolidation Boiling the frog coverage

notes today: version 3.10, 3.10.1 march meeting in san diego? ken--oscar? no, nothing berk, made plans around it

greg--cth, prism cth may have an issue but not paraview, greg thinks holding off checking in prism view autoscaling in view

particles get into 3.10--exodus particles--alex brown; 2/3 terrabyte rocket sled hitting water

 particles in exodus

working on getting berk 2 cth experts on thursday afternoon

statistics find data box--

 doesn't have notion of min/max

in situ nathan, ken

phillipe statistics

greg--4/5 issues with prism, but minor. main has to do with link selection. mainly about prism view probably fixed after release. allegra users, cth users, (no presto users yet) greg demo wednesday, 1/19, afternoon, csri greg talking about various documentation (tutorial, wiki) giving tutorial probably in feb.

ken asked about funding; about 1fte worth of person through end of Jan, contract resets, out to (rhondas?) desk

Project Randy

Today:

may need help later on feature comparison table, time to go

Ken has been emailing a proposal around. Help, support needed?

Nathan: in situ on which multicores? In situ project on vtksnl?

Alan: zia app stuff done? was run on ciello unclassified, passed;

Need good I/O comparisons between solver output and coprocessing output.

Can we distribute PHASTA with coprocessing adapter?

Previously:

CTH tracer data

starting to get particle and tracer data issues from users particle data isn't working one dataset is 200 gig in size Alan working

VISIT bridge/data files

works, but issues with updates on silo (not paraview) silo is file format that visit reads, sort of separate library

Statistics Package, min/max

work in parallel select data filter complex filter interface

touches lots of things, not in 3.10, hoepfully in 3.10.1

ParaView 3.10 Release

waiting for hdf5 to move over vtk moving of whole directory selection bug (selection points) mesa issue (alan, jeff)

Documenting Plugins

The new rule should be that if a plugin is distributed with the ParaView binaries, it must have a wiki page documenting it. These wiki pages will then be integerated in the new ParaView electronic book.

Warning when ProcessRequest modifies itself

Previously:

A while ago we talked about adding a check to the executive that issues a warning if it detects that its MTime changes during a call to ProcessRequest. Whatever happened to that? I just spent 2 days tracking down a parallel pipeline update problem that would have been quickly alerted had this been in place (and was easily fixed once I put my own check in place).

Berk suggested first adding the check only to ParaView. We will see how that works, and then possibly move to VTK. Kitware will take care of that.

On Berk's todo list. Berk is working on proposals for the ARB. One is to change the modularization of VTK. The other is to yank out VTK 4.0 compatibility, which will allow us to clean up vtkExecutive change.

Book omissions and errata

Previously:

Lisa is going to create a bug-tracker like functionality for the Kitware books.

Transition to git, branchy workflow, topics, masternext

Previously:

Branchy workflow. Tie in to stronger dashboard.

dashboard greenness!

maintainers? slowdown in development?

Berk

data in paraview/baseline paraview

ParaView + ADIOS

Today:

Previously:

adios is in mainstream paraview--young project

vtkArray

shallow copy vs. deep copy design doc on paraview's developer wiki