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)

Strawman Documentation

• Strawman Documentation
  • Strawman Overview
    • Requirements
    • System Architecture
    • System Diagram
    • Pipelines
      • VTK-m
      • EAVL
      • Blueprint HDF5
      • Empty
  • Example Integrations
    • Lulesh
      • Running Lulesh
    • CloverLeaf3D
      • Running CloverLeaf3D
    • Kripke
      • Running Kripke
  • Building Strawman
    • Overview
    • Build Dependencies
      • Strawman
        • Conduit
        • IceT
        • Pipelines
    • Getting Started
    • Build Options
    • Host Config Files
    • Bootstrapping Third Party Dependencies
    • Compiler Settings for Third Party Dependencies
    • Building with Spack
    • Using Strawman in Another Project
    • Building Strawman in a Docker Container
  • Strawman API
    • Open
    • Publish
    • Execute
    • Close
    • Error Handling
  • Strawman Actions
    • Strawman Actions Overview
    • add_plot
      • Rendering Options
        • Color Map
        • Camera Parameters
    • draw_plots
      • Connecting To The Web Server
  • Strawman GPU Notes
    • Number of Ranks Per Node
    • VTK-m CUDA JIT Compilation Delays
• Releases
  • v0.1.0
• Publications and Presentations
  • Publications
  • Presentations
• License Info
  • Strawman License
  • Third Party Builtin Libraries
    • C and C++ Libraries
    • Fortran Libraries
    • Build System
    • Proxy Applications
    • Documentation

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page