Integrating Visualization Applications, such as ParaView, into HEP Software Frameworks for In-situ Event Displays
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
ParaView is a high performance visualization application not widely used in High Energy Physics (HEP). It is a long standing open source project led by Kitware and involves several Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DOD) laboratories. Futhermore, it has been adopted by many DOE supercomputing centers and other sites. ParaView is unique in speed and efficiency by using state-of-the-art techniques developed by the academic visualization community that are often not found in applications written by the HEP community. In-situ visualization of events, where event details are visualized during processing/analysis, is a common task for experiment software frameworks. Kitware supplies Catalyst, a library that enables scientific software to serve visualization objects to client ParaView viewers yielding a real-time event display. Connecting ParaView to the Fermilab art framework will be described and the capabilities it brings discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1423234
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-17-646-CD; 1638566
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Vol. 898, Issue 7; Conference: 22nd International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, San Francisco, CA, 10/10-10/14/2016; ISSN 1742-6588
- Publisher:
- IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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