Workshop: ISAV 2022: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization
Authors: V. Gregory Weirs, Elaine M. Raybourn, Reed Milewicz, Killian Muollo, Jeffrey A. Mauldin, and Thomas J. Otahal (Sandia National Laboratories)
Abstract: This paper reports on Catalyst usability and initial adoption by SPARC analysts. The use case driven approach highlights the analysts’ perspective. Impediments to adoption can be due deficiencies in software capabilities, but analysts identify many mundane inconveniences and barriers that prevent them from fully leveraging Catalyst. With that said, for many analyst tasks Catalyst provides enough relative advantage that they have begun applying it in their production work, and recognize the potential for it to solve problems they currently struggle with. The findings in this report include specific issues and minor bugs in Paraview python scripting, which are viewed as having straightforward solutions, and a broader adoption analysis.