Some of the data sets that are included from VTK-m are derived from the
VisIt Tutorial Data (https://www.visitusers.org/index.php?title=Tutorial_Data).
These are covered by the VisIt license, as communicated by Eric Brugger.
Although the license for these data is compatible with VTK-m's license,
we should still attribute the source of the data and make clear the
copyrights. The data are moved into the third_party directory, and
readmes are added to document everything.
The noise.vtk and noise.bov files have been renamed example.vtk and
example_temp.bov to match the name of the file in the VisIt tutorial
data archive. The ucd3d.vtk file, which is similar to the curv3d.silo
data but altered, has been removed. It was not used for any tests. It
was referenced in a couple of example programs, but the reference is
easily changed.
The testing files (even the headers) are not available if
`VTKm_ENABLE_TESTING` is off.
Mostly, the testing was used to generate example data sets. Instead,
change the examples to load data files.
The timer class now is asynchronous and device independent. it's using an
similiar API as vtkOpenGLRenderTimer with Start(), Stop(), Reset(), Ready(),
and GetElapsedTime() function. For convenience and backward compability, Each
Start() function call will call Reset() internally and each GetElapsedTime()
function call will call Stop() function if it hasn't been called yet for keeping
backward compatibility purpose.
Bascially it can be used in two modes:
* Create a Timer without any device info. vtkm::cont::Timer time;
* It would enable timers for all enabled devices on the machine. Users can get a
specific elapsed time by passing a device id into the GetElapsedtime function.
If no device is provided, it would pick the maximum of all timer results - the
logic behind this decision is that if cuda is disabled, openmp, serial and tbb
roughly give the same results; if cuda is enabled it's safe to return the
maximum elapsed time since users are more interested in the device execution
time rather than the kernal launch time. The Ready function can be handy here
to query the status of the timer.
* Create a Timer with a device id. vtkm::cont::Timer time((vtkm::cont::DeviceAdapterTagCuda()));
* It works as the old timer that times for a specific device id.
Now that the dispatcher does its own TryExecute, filters do not need to
do that. This change requires all worklets called by filters to be able
to execute without knowing the device a priori.
Sandia National Laboratories recently changed management from the
Sandia Corporation to the National Technology & Engineering Solutions
of Sandia, LLC (NTESS). The copyright statements need to be updated
accordingly.
Previously each device adapter only had a unique string name. This was
not the best when it came to developing data structures to track the status
of a given device at runtime.
This adds in a unique numeric identifier to each device adapter. This will
allow classes to easily create bitmasks / lookup tables for the validity of
devices.
When writing multiple backend code users of vtkm need to use the
DeviceAdapterTraits classes, so therefore we should move them to vtkm::cont
to signify this.
Array transforms can now be created with an inverse functor, allowing for
casts back into the native array type. As a result, array transforms with
both a functor and inverse functor defined can perform read and write
operations. As an example, ArrayHandleCast now supports this operation. The
original implementation of ArrayHandleCast (i.e. read only) has been renamed
'ArrayHandleCastForInput'.
