Ascent 0.8.0 - Released 2022-02-11

0.8.0 Release Highlights

ascent-v0.8.0-src-with-blt.tar.gz includes submodules.

(adapted from Ascent's Changelog)

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Added

• Added OCCA Derived Field Generation support
• Added more math expressions
• Added a time expression
• Added Cinema rendering support for Devil Ray
• Added streamline and particle_advection transforms
• Added history gradient expressions
• Added the ability save named sessions
• Added new options to specify Cinema rendering parameters
• Added the ability save subsets of expression results to session files
• Added the ability to add comments to PNG files that Ascent creates
• Added timings out control option to Ascent (and Flow)
• Added support to render Polygonal nd Polyhedral Meshes
• Added option to turn of world annotations
• Added FIDES Support
• Added Spack and Uberenv support for building on Perlmutter

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where ascent timings files were written out twice
• Fixed a bug where the relay extract protocol was always hdf5, regardless of what was requested
• Various fixes to paraview_ascent_source.py

Changed

• Python CMake detection logic now prefers Python 3
• Changed Ascent's C-API to use Conduit's C-API object helper methods
• CMake, Spack, and uberenv changes to support newer versions of Cuda, CMake, etc
• Updated to use VTK-m 1.7.0
• Make Ascent Webserver support optional, linked to if Conduit Relay Web support exists
• Simplified the relay extract protocol params, for example can now use hdf5 instead of blueprint/mesh/hdf5
• Updated Spack and Uberenv support for building on Summit

Docker Containers

• alpinedav/ascent:0.8.0
• alpinedav/ascent-jupyter:0.8.0