[Paraview] Catalyst question

[Dan Lipsa]

Hi John,
We just posted more information about Catalyst Live features that went into
ParaView 4.2.

http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/722

Regards,
Dan


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>
wrote:

>  Andy
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> Thanks for the info, great news that the live stuff is ongoing. My current
> test uses cxx only, so I didn’t play with the python pipelines and hadn’t
> noticed the live viz option. I will experiment and get back to you.
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> I saw a bunch of questions recently about doing GPU based stuff inside
> catalyst and it is my aim to get my cuda/piston based renderers working
> in-situ. I’ll let you know how I get on.
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> If there are commits on branches you think I might want to test, please
> say.
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> thanks again
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> JB
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> *From:* Andy Bauer [mailto:andy.bauer at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* 26 August 2014 15:34
> *To:* Biddiscombe, John A.
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Catalyst question
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> Hi John,
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> This live capability is now available and recently has been cleaned up
> quite a bit. There are still a couple more small changes that are waiting a
> code review process before they go into the master branch. The user's guide
> needs an update for a bunch of new information (live, catalyst editions,
> zero-copy arrays) that's important for Catalyst. We're also doing some
> preliminary testing with a newly developed ADIOS writer for better IO
> performance as well.
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> Getting back to the live viz stuff, when you create a Catalyst Python
> script and export it using the wizard you'll have the option to enable live
> viz (it's the same wizard page as the screenshot output specification).
> Then, while your simulation is running use the Catalyst->Connect option to
> connect. There are two tests (pv.CatalystLiveSetBreakpoint and
> pvcs.CatalystLiveSetBreakpoint) that demonstrate the newly implemented live
> functionality which now includes the option to set a breakpoint in the
> simulation.
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> If you get a chance to try it out, let me know what you think.
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> Andy
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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>
> wrote:
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> Dear Catalyst people
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> I dragged out an old simulation demo I created some time ago and got it
> working with paraview/catalyst from git master branch - my plan was to test
> a live visualization of the simulation with the paraview GUI connected to
> the simulation. I had thought this capability was now possible, but I have
> not been following development closely and it looks like I was mistaken.
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> Is it possible to visualize the simulation live - rather than just
> generate images (which works fine). (I had a quick skim through the user
> manual, but didn’t see this feature mentioned).
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> Thanks
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> JB
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