The use of advanced simulations in a variety of fields from manufacturing to scientific modeling is becoming increasingly prevalent. However, the full potential of simulations has yet to be realized. Current tools are general purpose and non-intuitive to use by non-simulation experts and often require combining several different toolkits to achieve the desired end result. In addition, due to the increasing complexity and scale of the current problem domains being addressed, the simulations that need to be run must be coupled with high performance computational techniques.

Kitware is developing a suite of open-source applications that will address the complete simulation lifecycle (from geometric modeling to visualization of simulation results). Basing our work on a flexible framework built upon existing open-source HPC toolkits will enable customization for a range of specific vertical markets. By addressing the pre-, co-, and post processing needs, the suite will facilitate more efficient visualization and analysis.

We have worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to develop a Computational Model Builder application for use with ParaView that is being used to model the Chesapeake Bay.