Telecon: 2024 03 19

Updates

• Conduit 0.9.1 released 2/9
  • Less strict about C++14 to avoid issues with MFEM builds
  • Justin: Polygons for Silo Blueprint I/O
• Development beyond 0.9.1:
  • Brad: Face ordering fix for polyhedral splitting during partition map back
  • Brad: Fix partition map back to support external data
  • Brad: Extra naming options for multiple topologies
  • Justin: Working on species sets for Silo Blueprint and working on VisIt Blueprint support for Species
  • Justin: Worked on adding material ids as part of the material names in the VisIt plugin and we reverted it b/c we need to think more about free material cases.
• Upcoming Work:
  • Justin is going to start working on Device Support for Conduit

Future:

• Conduit Device Execution Strategy (https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/1151)
• Workflows that are using in-transit with near-node storage
• Learn how to talk to S3 object stores as an end point for Conduit Nodes. - Strategy for Object Storage (S3) (libcurl example https://github.com/cedricve/AWS-S3-Cpp-REST-API)
• Explore ZFP (or even ZLIB) Compression in HDF5 for ML Ensemble Data (Floating Point Images / Regular Grids)
• Stricter set semantics? https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/941
• Blueprint Helpers:
  • Top level Mesh BP Transforms Interface: ( https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/93)
  • Modify names of mesh bp entries (rename a topology, rename a field) (https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/940).