Justin Privitera

In my work on Blueprint Species Set Support (#19859), I came across a longstanding bug with species selection. https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/blob/94abb38624aa3a181be2e604f993c780199af2b3/src/avt/Database/Database/avtGenericDatabase.C#L5860-L5867 If the input data is not represented as a float, nothing...

What does `opensWholeDirectory="false"` do in the XML file for databases?

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If it does what I think it does, can we enable it for ADIOS2?

Fix docs for `CreateAnnotationObject` (and add logging for that function as well?)

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See info here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:[email protected]/1726684662073?tenantId=a722dec9-ae4e-4ae3-9d75-fd66e2680a63&groupId=70162982-9587-4bcc-ad53-20178c76fe11&parentMessageId=1726684662073&teamName=VisIt&channelName=General&createdTime=1726684662073 Screenshot 

Docs on tips and tricks to improve performance

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A lot of users have asked me about how to get better performance when scaling up the size of problems they are working on. I think it would be helpful...

json base64 parse doesn't do what it is supposed to

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```c++ std::string RC_CINEMA_WEB = R"xyzxyz( { "schema": { "index.html": {"dtype":"char8_str","number_of_elements": 1,"offset": 0,"stride": 1,"element_bytes": 1,"endianness": "little"}, "cvlib": {"dtype":"char8_str","number_of_elements": 1,"offset": 1,"stride": 1,"element_bytes": 1,"endianness": "little"} }, "data": { "base64": "ab" } } )xyzxyz";...

https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/blob/fa0f8d3738b0c4cef95a0d05003f3b80aa381f23/src/libs/conduit/conduit_node.hpp#L3777 This should be const like the reference version of this function. The problem with doing this is that several areas of Conduit are built on this being non const....

See https://github.com/LLNL/conduit/wiki/Snippets for inspiration We want to add STL support to relay mesh io, but with no dependencies. Maybe this and Silo (and VTK) are all wired up under `blueprint::load_mesh`...