HR: 0800h
AN: IN41A-0073    [Abstracts]
TI: XML Data Unification for Visualization
AU: * Shasharina, S
EM: sveta@txcorp.com
AF: Tech-X Corporation, 5621 Arapahoe Ave Suite A, Boulder, CO 80303, United States
AU: Hamill, P
EM: paulh@txcorp.com
AF: Tech-X Corporation, 5621 Arapahoe Ave Suite A, Boulder, CO 80303, United States
AB: Under the auspices of the US DOE and NASA, multiple projects are using high-end supercomputing to expand our knowledge in planetary and solar physics, plasma 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.
UR: http://collaborate.txcorp.com/collaborate/distributed-technologies/fsml-project-folder/
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting