Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) is a highly effective simulation method for spanning a large range of spatiotemporal scales, such as astrophysical simulations that must accommodate ranges from interstellar to sub-planetary. Most mainstream visualization tools still lack support for AMR as a first class data type and AMR code teams use custom built applications for AMR visualization. The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Science Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies (VACET) is extending and deploying VisIt, an open source visualization tool that accommodates AMR as a first-class data type, for use as production-quality, parallel-capable AMR visual data analysis infrastructure. This effort will help science teams that use AMR-based simulations and who develop their own AMR visual data analysis software to realize cost and labor savings.