Cinema Transfer: A Containerized Visualization Workflow.

We present a containerized workflow demonstrating in situ analysis of simulation data rendered by a ParaView/Catalyst adapter for the generic SENSEI in situ interface, then streamed to a remote site for visualization. We use Cinema, a database approach for navigating the metadata produced in situ. We developed a web socket tool, cinema transfer, for transferring the generated cinema databases to a remote machine while the simulation is running. We evaluate the performance of this containerized workflow and identify bottlenecks for large scale runs, in addition to testing identical containers at different sites with differing hardware and Message Passing Interface (MPI) implementations.