SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2007

XML Data Unification for Visualization

Session: Posters Reception

Event Type: Poster

Time: 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Session Chair: Tamara K Grimmett

Author(s): Svetlana Shasharina, Paul Hamill

Location: Ballroom Lobby

Abstract:
Under the auspices of the US DOE SciDAC program, projects such as CEMM, SWIM, FACETS and COMPASS are using high-end supercomputing to expand our knowledge in fusion and accelerator physics. Such simulations generate data using very different formatting conventions, even if they use a standard file format such as HDF5. This makes visualization and comparison of different codes problematic, requiring individual readers for each code and visualization tool. In this poster we present Fusion Simulation Markup Language (FSML), an extensible XML-based schema embodying the conceptual commonalities of the data, along with a C++ API for reading FSML-described data stored in HDF5 files. By creating FSML instance files to describe the differences in the conventions adopted by applications, and using the API, we can read data from heterogeneous sources such as NIMROD, M3D, and VORPAL into multiple visualization tools such as AVS/Express and VisIt (supported by VACET SciDAC team).

Chair/Author Details:

Tamara K Grimmett (Chair)
INL

Svetlana Shasharina
Tech-X Corporation

Paul Hamill
Tech-X Corporation

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