Telecon: 2023 04 18

• Updates (Since last meeting)

  • 0.8.7 release
  • Justin: Very close on Silo / Overlink File I/O Support
  • Arlie: O2MIndex / NDIndex are in 0.8.7
  • Brad: Smoking gun about generate + adjset leading to ambiguous/incorrect cases
  • Justin: Working on a talk about Blueprint + X Ray Image Query Workflow for DOE CGF
  • Cyrus: OpenMP Guards + full build system support
  • Kitware: Added Python ABI Stable API Support

• Discussion:

  • FY24 Project Planning (Conduit and ITC)
  • Should data accessors support write back (Cyrus thinks yes ..)
  • c++ iterator interface for DataArray and DataAccessor
  • Cyrus will work on demoing relocation CMake installs
  • Folks want PyPI Wheels

• Future:

  • Explore ZFP (or even ZLIB) Compression in HDF5 for ML Ensemble Data (Floating Point Images / Regular Grids)
  • Discuss: https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/issues/941
  • Add JSON/YAML Schema format that includes pointers
    • From Kitware discussion
    • Would enable duplicating a node using external semantics via a string interface.