Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado
Even if common, self-described data formats are used, data organization (e.g. the structure and names of groups, datasets and attributes) differs between applications. This makes development of uniform visualization tools problematic and comparison of simulation results difficult. VizSchema is an effort to standardize metadata of HDF5 format so that the entities needed to visualize the data can be identified and interpreted by visualization tools. This approach allowed us to develop a standard powerful visualization tool, based on VisIt, for visualization of large data of various kinds (fields, particles, meshes) allowing 3D visualization of large-scale data from the COMPASS suite (VORPAL and Synergia) for SRF cavities and laser-plasma acceleration.
