Strawman
Matthew C. Larsen, Eric Brugger, Hank Childs, Jim Eliot, Kevin S. Griffin, Cyrus Harrison · 2015
We present Strawman, a system designed to explore the in situ visualization and analysis needs of simulation code teams planning for multi-physics calculations on exascale architectures. Strawman's design derives from key requirements from a diverse set of simulation code teams, including lightweight usage of shared resources, batch processing, ability to leverage modern architectures, and ease-of-use both for software integration and for usage during simulation runs. We describe the Strawman system, the key technologies it depends on, and our experiences integrating Strawman into three proxy simulations. Our findings show that Strawman's design meets our target requirements, and that some of its concepts may be worthy of integration into our community in situ implementations.