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This release adds FreeIPA LDAP integration, many new GraphQL fields, a variety of performance enhancements, and a handful of usability improvements. This release also contains many bug fixes and internal refactoring changes For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

In scientific computing, managing continuous integration (CI) pipelines and binary generation can become challenging, especially when handling complex dependencies and large software builds. At Kitware, we’ve integrated powerful tools like GitLab, Spack, and AWS to streamline these processes, enabling scalable and efficient software development.

In the beginning, there was chaos. Then there was pkg-config. This was more-or-less adequate for autotools, but it is suboptimal for describing related but separable consumables, and flag soup is semantically lossy. Thus, CMake developed in a different direction, initially creating “find modules”, and later, “exported targets”. The latter in particular is a significant advancement in the state of package information exchange, although it...

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is a widely used open-source solution for post-processing analysis on a desktop. The library is written in C++ but can be used in Python and Java thanks to wrapping infrastructure. A JavaScript library (vtk.js) is also available but lacks the decades of investment and development from which the C++ library benefits. […]

For some time, CMake has recommended using target namespaces for imported targets. This has the advantage of reducing name conflicts while providing an indicator as to what provides various targets. (There is also the advantage, when using the preferred and strongly recommended “::” namespace separator, that CMake enforces the existence of targets with qualified names, rather than silently assuming that an unknown name should...

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, making advanced modeling and simulation tools available on the web is essential for teams that need to collaborate and scale their workflows. But how can you effectively transition these tools to a browser-based environment while ensuring smooth performance and user-friendly interfaces?

Kitware, a leader in innovative medical software, is developing the next generation of echocardiography that uses autonomous ultrasound scanning and artificial intelligence to diagnose congenital heart diseases (CHD) in newborns.

The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is a premier event showcasing the latest advancements in NLP research and applications. It brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge methodologies, share groundbreaking findings, and explore future directions in the field of natural language processing.

Last year, we introduced Catalyst-ADIOS2, a new Catalyst implementation capable to process simulation data on the fly on a dedicated visualization cluster. We recommend reading this first blog post before this one if you have not already. Catalyst-ADIOS2 enables new in situ workflows (named “in transit”) that process simulation outputs without blocking the simulation itself. […]

The next version of ParaView will feature two very noticeable changes: the default colormap and background will be different! This marks the first change in these defaults in well over a decade. In this blog post, we will describe why the change was made and explain why the new defaults are better for most visualization […]

The SlicerSALT team is proud to announce that version 5.0 is now available for download. This release introduces new and exciting improvements. Our skeletal representation functionality now includes now tools to serialize the computation of s-reps in large datasets. This release also includes a s-rep specific tool for the computation of hypothesis testing, specially designed […]

The 2024 MSS Joint (BAMS and NSSDF) Conference offers a secure platform for the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities to explore cutting-edge advancements in sensor technology and data fusion. The BAMS committee will focus on innovations in acoustic, seismic, magnetic, and electric-field sensing and their applications, while the NSSDF committee will delve into integrated information operations and multisource data fusion. Attendees will have...

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'24) is the premier conference for supercomputing experts where they can discuss the latest developments, technologies, and applications in high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. This conference provides researchers, industry leaders, and practitioners a platform to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and collaborate on cutting-edge advancements.

trame Kitware has created trame [1] to spark creativity and empower developers to construct compelling interactive visual applications accessible directly through web browsers. trame, a Python package, functions as a tool for building robust applications without the need for extensive knowledge in web development. Its remarkable adaptability facilitates the creation of desktop applications, Jupyter tools, […]

As software systems are more complex, the need for an efficient and flexible build system becomes critical. Kitware has extensive experience managing large software build and package systems, which is showcased through our work with the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). VTK is a powerful library for scientific data processing and visualization that originally adopted CMake as a build system in 2000. Since then, VTK has...

Point cloud of 2 billions of points from The Grand Lyon rendered by VTK with WebGPU Recently, Kitware internal development made it possible to use a new type of shader in VTK with WebGPU: the Compute Shader. Already presented in a previous blog post, this modern rendering approach allows us to offload computations from the […]

Investigating new approaches to improve the performance of ITK filters. By leveraging Halide’s unique approach to optimizing image pipelines, we can significantly enhance the performance of ITK operations, making workflows faster and more scalable.

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash 3.5.0. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Kitware’s field work can take many forms, but it's not every day we get to venture out into the Arctic Circle within eyeshot of Siberia. Our team participated in an extensive system testing and integration event in Nome, Alaska to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) prepare for a massive seal survey in 2025.