Tackle the Full Simulation Lifecycle With CMB

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC’24) is the premier conference for supercomputing experts where they can discuss the latest developments, technologies, and applications in high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. This conference provides researchers, industry leaders, and practitioners a platform to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and collaborate on cutting-edge advancements.

Building simulation workflows can be complicated. Trying to find and connect different tools to get the results you’re looking for can be inefficient, error-prone and take up valuable resources, including time and money. To make matters worse, sharing and deploying these workflows to fellow engineers, researchers, and academics tend to involve relying on hand written notes and scripts that can be difficult to follow and maintain.

It’s been quite a while since the last release of SMTK and we wanted to start off 2024 with a feature packed release which includes the following improvements: Important SMTK Core Changes The changes in this section have a widespread impact on SMTK. Type Hierarchy Reflection SMTK has long provided introspection functionality for classes such […]

The third CMake 3.31 release candidate!

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is a widely used open-source solution for desktop post-processing analysis. Even though the library is written in C++, its sophisticated wrapping infrastructure allows developers to build entire visualization applications in Python and Java. Until recently, the python wrapper naively exposed the C++ functions to Python. For example, a C++ member function […]

VTK and ParaView have a huge library of visualization tools built on a data model that progressively adds conceptual assumptions based on how the data can be represented; the more information you can provide about your data, the more efficient the tools can be. We are adding a new data representation – called a cell grid – to address a large range of novel discretizations.

In the beginning, there was chaos. Then there was pkg-config. This was more-or-less adequate for autotools, but it is suboptimal for describing related but separable consumables, and flag soup is semantically lossy. Thus, CMake developed in a different direction, initially creating “find modules”, and later, “exported targets”. The latter in particular is a significant advancement in the state of package information exchange, although it retains some limitations… of which the biggest, by far, is that it’s implemented in CMake script. As a result, only CMake has been able to take advantage of the much richer information provided by exported targets.

The second CMake 3.31 release candidate!