visit-plotAfter we reported on the inclusion of VisIt into the SuperComputing 2009 Student Cluster Competition, Hank Childs stopped by to post some information.

As far as the benchmarks: the evaluation criteria is still being determined. From an HPC perspective, we obviously want to stress I/O, compute, and communication.

My initial thoughts were to upsample a toy data set to become a large one, then have them run a script to make a movie. I was thinking a three frame movie with volume rendering, contouring, and a moving slice.

He follows it up with an invitation for suggestions and ideas on what to include in the contest criteria. So, here’s your chance: What would make for a good VisIt benchmark?