Mark C. Miller
Mark C. Miller
We use a very old concept, originally introduced in MeshTV, to *family* files to a) avoid overriting existing files and b) save related outputs. I wonder whether VisIt should behave...
### Is your feature request related to a problem? XZ compression is often 2-3x better than gzip...the BOV default. Files compressed by XZ can be distinguished from files compressed with...
Happened to run across this comment while poking around... https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/blob/69efc8f3433696ac56c4fe97f5ae416c5e48ee03/src/avt/Database/Database/avtSourceFromDatabase.C#L205-L219. Turns out this was done 14 years ago. Maybe we have enough experience to remove it now?
### Describe the bug The Mili plugin defines some *label* variables internally, `OriginalZoneLabels` and `OriginalNodeLables`. They are defined as *label* variables with a large-ish number of components 7-15 depending on...
See [these notes in the summer intern project](https://github.com/visit-dav/summer-projects/issues/23) This will likely be handled as part of summer intern project
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Silo has had a feature for quite a while for data producers to add alternative (typically used for *global*) numbers to...
### Describe the bug When we run nightly tests, for any test that fails, we copy the currently produced image to the dashboard. However, we are not doing this for...
I happened to go searching for info about SAMRAI's I/O features and ran across this remark... > (e) Files written in HDF5 format should be architecture independent. However, we have...
Title caught my eye. Its a short read. https://www.parkersoftware.com/blog/the-logic-behind-worse-is-better/ One issue is use of `worse` as proxy for `siimple`. `less` might have been better but it wouldn't have made as...