This is a major release including many improvements, bug fixes, and new capabilities.
Some highlights are:
- The new OSPRay ray tracing analysis back end contributes by Dave DeMarle and Carson Brownlee of Intel
- Data and Execution Model extensions that support zero-copy data transfer on systems with heterogeneous architectures. CUDA, HIP and OpenMP target offload are supported. See our ISAV 2023 paper for more info.
- New GPU accelerated DataBinning analysis back-end analysis adaptor
- Catalyst 2 support contributed by Dan Lipsa and Corey Waterer-Nelson of Kitware.
- Updates for latest version of ADIOS
- Buoild system improvements that isolate our internal settings
A number of other general improvements and fixes were made. See #143 for details.