Telecon: 2024 09 17

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Updates:

• Justin: Some device support progress.
• Arlie: Working on Enhanced and Reduced Example.
• Brad: Working on Axom MIR using Conduit views: https://github.com/LLNL/axom/tree/feature/whitlock/mir_update/src/axom/mir/views
• Visit 3.4.2 beta has many improvements related to blueprint reading and writing: /usr/gapps/visit/beta/bin/visit
• Mark: Testing HDF5 version compatibility and performance in the context of Silo.
  • two ways to set libver: Don't set file access property list (conduit is doing this!)
  • related Silo issue: https://github.com/LLNL/Silo/issues/313
  • What are the implications of a libver range vs min and max being the same value. sort of related issue: https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/1324

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).
• Blueprint to GLTF / ANARI.
• Blueprint to VTK