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========
Strawman
========


A many-core capable lightweight in situ visualization and analysis infrastructure for multi-physics HPC simulations.

.. important::

    Strawman is no longer being actively developed. ALPINE Ascent https://alpine-dav.github.io/ascent/ is an evolution 
    of and a successor to Strawman.
 



Introduction
============

Strawman is a system designed to explore the in situ visualization and analysis needs of simulation code teams running multi-physics calculations on many-core HPC architectures. It provides rendering pipelines that can leverage both many-core CPUs and GPUs to render images of simulation meshes. 

Strawman focuses on ease of use and reduced integration burden for simulation code teams:

- It does not require any GUI or system graphics libraries.
- It includes integration examples which demonstrate how to use Strawman inside of three different HPC simulation proxy applications.
- It provides a built-in web server that supports streaming rendered images directly to a web browser.

Strawman Project Resources
==========================

**Online Documentation**

http://software.llnl.gov/strawman

**Githib Source Repo**

http://github.com/llnl/strawman

**Issue Tracker**

http://github.com/llnl/strawman/issues

Contributors
============

- Cyrus Harrison (LLNL)
- Matt Larsen (LLNL)
- Eric Brugger (LLNL)
- Jim Eliot (AWE)
- Kevin Griffin (LLNL)
- Hank Childs (LBL and UO)

Strawman Documentation
======================

.. toctree::

   Strawman 
   Releases
   Publications
   Licenses

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`