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-====== Scientific Visualization 101: VisIt vs. ParaView ~ Choosing the Right Tool for Your Data =======+====== Scientific Visualization 101: ParaView for HPC =======
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-  * Tuesday, November 10, 2026 \\ +  * Wednesday, April 15, 2026 \\ 
-  * 1:00pm - 4:00pm \\+  * 1:30pm - 3:30pm \\
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-<wrap em button> [[https://kaustforms.formstack.com/forms/scivis101_visit_paraview | Register]] </wrap> \\+<wrap em button> [[https://kaustforms.formstack.com/forms/paraview_hpc | Register]] </wrap> \\
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 <WRAP center round box download 100%>  <fs:26px>** Workshop Materials**</fs> <WRAP center round box download 100%>  <fs:26px>** Workshop Materials**</fs>
   * **Data** [[https://download.vis.kaust.edu.sa/pub/data/visualizationVignettes/noise.silo | noise.silo]]   * **Data** [[https://download.vis.kaust.edu.sa/pub/data/visualizationVignettes/noise.silo | noise.silo]]
-  * **Intro Slides** [[https://download.vis.kaust.edu.sa/pub/workshops/2026/scivis101-visit-paraview/Intro.pdf | Intro Slides]] +  * **Slides Part 1** [[https://download.vis.kaust.edu.sa/pub/workshops/2026/scivis101-paraviewForHPC/paraviewIntro.pdf | Slides 1]] 
-  * **ParaView Slides** [[https://download.vis.kaust.edu.sa/pub/workshops/2026/scivis101-visit-paraview/ParaView.pdf | ParaView Slides]] +  * **Slides Part 2** [[https://download.vis.kaust.edu.sa/pub/workshops/2026/scivis101-paraviewForHPC/Scientific%20Visualization%20101%20-%20ParaView%20for%20HPC.pdf | Slides 2]]
-  * **VisIt Slides** [[https://download.vis.kaust.edu.sa/pub/workshops/2026/scivis101-visit-paraview/VisIt.pdf | VisIt Slides]]+
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-  * **Prior Knowledge:** No prior visualization experience is required. This is a foundational 101-level course. +  * **Prior Knowledge:** A working knowledge of ParaView is assumed for this workshop. We recommend reviewing the following past sessions if you are unfamiliar with the basics: 
-  * **Hardware:** Bring a laptop with both VisIt and ParaView installed. +    * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syp6Eu1dkpE | Introduction to ParaView (ParaView 101)]] 
-    * Download ParaView from [[https://www.paraview.org/download/|ParaView.org]]. +    * [[https://youtu.be/h9_Sg7CN5Cg | Introduction to VisIt (VisIt 101)]] 
-    * Download VisIt from [[https://visit-dav.github.io/visit-website/releases-and-downloads/|VisIt Releases]].+  * **Hardware:** Bring a laptop with ParaView installed. 
 +    * ParaView version 5.13.1 is recommended. Download it from [[https://www.paraview.org/download/|ParaView.org]]. 
 +  * **HPC Access:** Ensure your **Ibex** and **Shaheen** accounts are active for the remote connection exercises.
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 ===== Overview ===== ===== Overview =====
  
-Visualization experts **James Kress** and **Thomas Theussl** will lead this comparative introduction to the two most popular open-source scientific visualization applications: [[https://visit-dav.github.io/visit-website/|VisIt]] and [[https://www.paraview.org/|ParaView]]. +Visualization experts **Thomas Theussl** and **James Kress** will lead this session on scaling your scientific visualization workflows. [[https://www.paraview.org/|ParaView]] is a professional-quality, open-source application designed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. 
  
-Many beginners struggle to decide which tool to invest their time in. This workshop solves that dilemma by putting both applications side-by-side. We will use the exact same datasets to demonstrate how each tool approaches data loading, pipeline building, filtering, and rendering, giving you a clear picture of their respective strengths. +The workshop is designed to take users from basic desktop interaction to advanced high-performance computing (HPC) environments. We will begin with a foundational introduction to ParaView's interface and logic before moving into the specifics of leveraging KAUST's supercomputing clusters.
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-The workshop is designed as a hands-on primer. You will learn the shared fundamentals of scientific visualization before breaking out into guided, deep-dive walkthroughs of both ParaView and VisIt. By the end of the session, you will have a practical cheat-sheet on which tool excels at which tasks for your specific research needs.+
  
 **Key Learning Objectives:** **Key Learning Objectives:**
-  * **SciVis Foundations:** Understand core data formats, representations, and visualization techniques. +  * **ParaView Core:** Master the pipeline browser, properties, and essential filters. 
-  * **ParaView Deep Dive:** Master the ParaView pipeline browser, properties, and essential filters. +  * **HPC Workflows:** Establish remote client-server connections to **Ibex** and **Shaheen**. 
-  * **VisIt Deep Dive:** Navigate VisIt's plots, operators, expressions, and subset controls. +  * **Automation:** Use Python scripting to record and execute non-interactive visualization tasks. 
-  * **Tool Selection:** Confidently choose the right visualization application based on your dataset and end goals.+  * **Efficiency:** Learn to scale from your local workstation to thousands of cores for large-scale data analysis.
  
  
 ===== Who Should Attend? ===== ===== Who Should Attend? =====
  
-KAUST researchers, engineers, and students who are new to scientific visualization and want to learn how to visualize their data without the trial-and-error of guessing which software to use. +KAUST researchers, engineers, and students who have outgrown their local workstation capabilities and need to learn how to script and scale their visualizations on Ibex and Shaheen. This is also applicable to those outside of KAUST who want to learn the concepts of ParaView on HPC to apply to their own clusters. 
  
  
  
 ===== Agenda ===== ===== Agenda =====
-^ Time              ^ Topic                                                                      ^ Speaker         ^ +^ Time              ^ Topic                                                       ^ Speaker         ^ 
-^ 1:00pm - 1:45pm   | **The Shared Foundation:** Core Concepts & Side-by-Side GUI Demo           | James Kress     | +^ 1:30pm - 2:30pm   | **ParaView Intro:** UI Fundamentals, Data Loading, and 3D Visualization | Thomas Theussl | 
-^ 1:45pm - 2:30pm   | **ParaView Deep Dive:** Pipelines, Filters, and Rendering                  | Thomas Theussl  | +^ 2:30pm - 2:40pm   | Coffee Break                                                |                 | 
-^ 2:30pm - 2:40pm   | Coffee Break                                                               |                 | +^ 2:40pm - 3:30pm   | **ParaView for HPC:** Remote Connections to Ibex/Shaheen, Python Scripting, and Batch Workflows | James Kress | 
-^ 2:40pm - 3:25pm   | **VisIt Deep Dive:** Plots, Operators, and Expressions                     | James Kress     | +^ 3:30pm            | Q&A / Final Discussion                                      | James & Thomas  |
-^ 3:25pm - 4:00pm   | **Choosing Your Tool:** Comparative Discussion, Cheat-Sheet, and Q&A       | James & Thomas  |+
  
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