Strawman

A many-core capable lightweight in situ visualization and analysis infrastructure for multi-physics HPC simulations.

Important

Strawman is no longer being actively developed. ALPINE Ascent https://alpine-dav.github.io/ascent/ is an evolution of and a successor to Strawman.

Introduction

Strawman is a system designed to explore the in situ visualization and analysis needs of simulation code teams running multi-physics calculations on many-core HPC architectures. It provides rendering pipelines that can leverage both many-core CPUs and GPUs to render images of simulation meshes.

Strawman focuses on ease of use and reduced integration burden for simulation code teams:

  • It does not require any GUI or system graphics libraries.
  • It includes integration examples which demonstrate how to use Strawman inside of three different HPC simulation proxy applications.
  • It provides a built-in web server that supports streaming rendered images directly to a web browser.

Strawman Project Resources

Online Documentation

http://software.llnl.gov/strawman

Githib Source Repo

http://github.com/llnl/strawman

Issue Tracker

http://github.com/llnl/strawman/issues

Contributors

  • Cyrus Harrison (LLNL)
  • Matt Larsen (LLNL)
  • Eric Brugger (LLNL)
  • Jim Eliot (AWE)
  • Kevin Griffin (LLNL)
  • Hank Childs (LBL and UO)

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